Well, i think there's a big difference between things that are standard in a linux distro and modules that are 3rd party software like nagios. Besides I think this is all adressed by what Nigel just mentioned: the moduel tool does dependency stuff starting with Telly.
cheers, Walter On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:53, Gabriel Filion <lelu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12-04-13 03:06 PM, Ashley Penney wrote: >> I'm actually fairly nervous about this new move towards dragging >> more and more out of the core into modules. It wouldn't be so bad if >> Puppet had a proper >> "packaging system" that handled dependencies and so forth, but as it >> stands I'm just worried >> about reaching a situation where we're constantly telling people in >> #puppet "oh, well first >> you need to get stdlib, nagios, yum, this, that, etc, that's why you >> can't do this". > > humm I must agree with this. > > Since the types by themselves are not a module per-se, could it be > better to package them in the same manner as the core is packaged, and > made available through the same resources? > > so then, people could install those with gem, apt or yum. (and easily > require those automatically from actual modules) > > -- > Gabriel Filion > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Walter Heck -- follow @walterheck on twitter to see what I'm up to! -- Check out my new startup: Server Monitoring as a Service @ http://tribily.com Follow @tribily on Twitter and/or 'Like' our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/tribily -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
