remove polkit from core?

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Fri Nov 16 09:17:29 UTC 2012


Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 à 16:10 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:47:25PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Given the move of most system configuration at a large scale to things
> > such as puppet and chef, I suspect that this argument has already lost in
> > the marketplace. Obviously, we should still support more locked down
> > configurations for the sites that need it, but programmatic application
> > of system configuration is likely to stay.
> > 
> > At least in the puppet/chef/etc cases you can tell when the system has
> > fallen out of the config, but other than a diff/hash you're not going to be
> > able to programmatically determine what it being out of configuration means
> > for the system operation itself.
> 
> Doesn't this make things _worse_ for puppet and chef and friends? When using
> those systems, it's nice to do the programmatic config and that level, and
> have easily-tweaked key value (or single value per file!) configuration.

No, you can just use a template and hide it behind the proper
abstraction.

it make things worse for stuff like augeas however.

-- 
Michael Scherer



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