On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:06:12 AM UTC-6, Alex Harvey wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:02:28 AM UTC+11, jcbollinger wrote: >> >> [...] >> I avoid 'gem' on principle, relying instead on hosts' native package >> managers. It is a bad idea to mix multiple package managers with >> overlapping areas of responsibility, and on systems that have a system-wide >> package manager, that precludes using any other. >> > > Gems are convenient at sites where many different native package managers > are in use. A site that has RedHat, Ubuntu, Solaris 10, Solaris 11, AIX & > HP-UX will have six different native package managers to work with and > rolling puppet, hiera & facter into all of these formats is time consuming > compared to using gems. >
The time spent up front to do the job right often produces much more time saved later on (indeed, that's a large component of "right"). In any case, PuppetLabs provides pre-built packages for a lot of different package management systems, so for the Puppet stack in particular, the up-front time you would need to invest is less than you may suppose. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/30RHshBYQckJ. 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.
