\o On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > Right now, our puppet-agent debian package merely "Suggests" > those. (The puppetserver package, surprisingly, "Recommends" them, > even though it Depends: puppet-agent. My feeling is that it should > delegate that decision to puppet-agent, but that's another issue > altogether.)
Today, if I install puppet-agent from Puppetlabs, I get the following modules vendored: # ls /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/vendor_modules/ -1 augeas_core cron_core host_core mount_core scheduled_task selinux_core sshkeys_core yumrepo_core zfs_core zone_core I think the same list should be present when I install puppet-agent from Debian. (I have no idea whether they all are already packaged as individual packages or not.) > An alternative would be to Recommends: the packages, but I think > that's not strong enough. I have no strong feelings here. My personal reading of "Recommends" always was "you really want these packages unless you know what you're doing/missing". But I guess "Depends" stronger enforces the "this package is compatible with what Puppetlabs ships/calls puppet-agent" > The downside of Depends is it makes it Really Hard to *not* install > those *-core modules, but I don't see how that use case would be > important in the first place. As the modules don't pull in any more dependencies, the only real downside is space, which I think is tolerable these days. Thanks for maintaining puppet! Evgeni
