On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:41:00 AM UTC-4, jmslagle wrote:
>
>
> On 06/25/2012 09:25 AM, Kelsey Hightower wrote: 
> > 
> > John you make a really good point. Rubygems support would be totally 
> > optional. One of my hopes is that once people are able to use rubygems 
> > for things like parser functions and report processors we start seeing 
> > more OS packages built from those gems. 
> > 
> > 
>
> More useful might be a good and easy way to create OS packages to do 
> plugins like this. 
>
> That would solve some amount of the chicken and egg problem you see 
> bootstrapping puppet clients that need certain plugins. 
>
> I suspect this change will allow that since it will suck plugin stuff 
> from a system location, so we don't have to go trying to create packages 
> to throw stuff in $libdir? 
>
> Thanks! 
>
> Jason 
>

Yep, also see Eric's example of using something like gem2rpm to create 
those OS packages. If you like this idea, please up vote the ticket and add 
your comments there.

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