Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 01/09/2013 12:26 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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>>> One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good
>>> arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the
>>> other having an official Git repository for them.
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>> Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also inflexable in
>> other ways. :)
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> Let me make an argument against rpms here.
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> Ansible doesn't require anything on the local system to run a playbook.
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> That's one of its virtues.
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> For a user if we just use a git repo then the user doesn't have to
> modify their system in order to use the tools to change their system.
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> There is a certain amount of elegance in that not to mention just not
> being annoying.

It also allows a user to take a recipe, fork, modify, improve etc and 
test it without necessarily knowing anything about rpm... or being a 
packager in the packager group etc. Having a fedora account etc...


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