On Mon, 3 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
If the goal is to save time by not having to research and avoid a whole bunch of stuff you really don't need to know about to duplicate a known working and recommended setup (and I'd think a lot of people might have that goal), setting up puppet/cfengine, etc. seems like exactly the wrong approach. With them, you not only need to know exactly the configuration you want ahead of time but also yet-another programming language unlike any other to make it happen. What we need instead is a package manager to do it for us, given a working example to pull the setup from.
What you end up with is needing to tie your pkg mgmt system into your config mgmt system - which is true - you do need to do that- and have all of them driven from one place.
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