On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Blake Barnett wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
>>
>>
>> This means that the default environment would need to become '' (the
>> empty string) on the client (which we would normally translate to
>> nil), and some valid value on the server, AFAICT.
>>
>> This effectively means that the puppet default environment is
>> *always*
>> nil, and users can set their own server-side default or whatever.
>
> Would it make more sense to have a "Base" environment that's _always_
> used, and any specified environments would extend/inherit from it?
> (or replace it, if that's complicating it too much).
How would this be different from just having a default environment?
Really, we (by which, I mean "someone else") could probably do most of
what Ashley wants by just adding the specify/use distinction, and
never allowing a nil environment. The validation would only ever
happen on the server in normal circumstances, so it doesn't really
matter.
This doesn't give the server the ability to set the default
environment, but it does make bootstrapping easier.
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