> On 1 Mar 2016, at 19:52, Eric Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically not 
> been run-time configurable.
> 
> The two problems in front of me that seem applicable are:
> 
> * Sometimes, certain facts are just plain bad to collect and users would like 
> to prevent them from even being resolved (see FACT-718, FACT-449, ).
> * Some facts are not inherently bad but _are_ expensive and/or change 
> infrequently, so preventing them from being resolved every time would be 
> beneficial (FACT-348)
> 
> Are there other problems you're running into in this area that you'd like to 
> see addressed with a "facter.conf"? I'd like to gather all the requirements 
> and start up a little Puppet RFC based on them.


Some individual facts might benefit from configuration. 

 - never consider docker*,and,others for ipaddress fact
  - ec2 facts IP address to hit
  - default gateway device
  - override some paths to required binaries

Etc, tons of these. So some way that we all agree on to ingest config on a per 
fact basis


> 
> --eric0
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