Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

[Bill Nottingham]

Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> >>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.
> >
> >Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also inflexable in
> >other ways. :)
> 
> Let me make an argument against rpms here.
> 
> Ansible doesn't require anything on the local system to run a playbook.
> 
> That's one of its virtues.
> 
> 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.
> 
> There is a certain amount of elegance in that not to mention just
> not being annoying.

Well, if we're allowing this to be for end-users as opposed to just
managed infrastructure, it would require *something* to be on the local
end-user's system, depending on how the playbook is written. (For example,
if it uses the 'command' or 'shell' features) That can be mitigated by
having requirements on the playbooks that we accept into this repository,
of course.

Bill