On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Pawel Tomulik <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> W dniu sobota, 18 stycznia 2014 18:20:16 UTC+1 użytkownik Felix Frank
> napisał:
>
>> On 01/16/2014 01:01 AM, James Turnbull wrote:
>> > I think this is a broadly good idea but I've got one concern about the
>> > on ramp to using Puppet. Whatever is done, pull out some/pull out all,
>> > the user experience of getting started with Puppet should remain
>> > seamless or at least as good as it is now. For example, if there's
>> > suddenly another step to get started with Puppet, i.e.:
>> >
>> > 1. Install Puppet.
>> > 2. Add resources.
>> > 3. See Puppet in action.
>> >
>> > Then I think the getting started user experience suffers. Especially
>> > with so many tutorials out there that just assume various resources
>> will
>> > be available. If the user gets some esoteric error (Dog forbid Puppet
>> > having an esoteric error :)) when they try to run a local .pp file or
>> do
>> > a puppet resource then that's a big turn-off.
>> >
>> > Puppet's learning curve can be steep for many users. Let's not make it
>> > any harder.
>>
>> I feel that this is a very valid point. As Pawel pointed out, this can
>> be approached with package dependencies.
>>
>> Would it make sense to take this a step further and rename the remainder
>> of puppet to puppet-core and supplement it with, say,
>> puppet-core-modules? Puppet proper would comprise both.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>
>
> You may wish to look at
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-bsd/g5DDPd3PL-U. These
> people seem to think about similar approach to packaging puppet for FreeBSD.
>

I agree with that thread. In general I think it is a good idea of platform
specific packages to include some platform specific modules as part of the
system out of the box.

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