On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Evan Hisey wrote:
>> The reason augeas is not a dependency is because puppet works just
>> fine without it and a lot of sites do not want or need the extra
>> functions that augeas provides, kind of like the way puppet does not
>> require any particular software provider to be installed. It is an
>> extra function dependency not a core  puppet dependency. You can
>> tell puppet to make sure it is installed before you use the augeas
>> features with an augeas default in the main manifest.
>
> Not exactly true.  The puppet packages from EPEL do have a requirement
> on ruby-augeas.  While it is not a hard dependency of puppet, it does
> provide enhanced functionality that we wanted to 'Just Work' after
> installation.  (Similarly, we require libselinux-ruby where it is
> available, which is just Fedora >= 9 for now.  RHEL 5.4 will include
> it as well, when it is released.)

Hmmm we need to put that on the list of packages that we do not ship then.


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