On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <[email protected]> wrote: > Martijn Grendelman <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> The lastest Puppet package in Ubuntu Natty /depends/ on libaugeas, >> rather than merely recommending it, like it used to, up to and >> including version 2.6.1. >> >> Is there a strict reason for this from Puppet's point of view? If not, >> I'll see if I can harrass the Ubuntu maintainer about this :-) > > augeas is a native type[1] in puppet, so a hard dependency, rather than > a recommendation, is proper. > > [1] <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/types/augeas.html>
Note that we're likely to make a shift in the future and trim down the Puppet "core", moving a lot of these extra types/providers into their own projects and release cycles, precisely to resolve some of these issues. Stig is right though. For now, this is the correct thing for the packages to do. -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
