Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system
Dan Ritter wrote:
>>>>> That's just knowing what packages you want to install.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean, what else are you supposed to know?
>>>
>>> Examples [...]
>>
>> Okay, right, no here we're only concerned with the state of
>> the OS in terms of packages that are installed so that they
>> can be used immediately by the user, I know that all
>> software can be and is by some including me configured with
>> no end in sight but I see no reason to bring _that_ into
>> _this_, since that is already done with config files and
>> that's the best way there is to do it IMO, and now it's
>> here as well - well, not really, that's what I'm asking for
>> - but when it is for me as well, that'd be the end of it
>> for me and I see no reason to mix it all together, plus
>> there are other ways to automate bringing a bunch of files
>> together on a disk if it comes to that.
>
> So, that is the difference between package installation and
> a configuration management system. As long as all you want
> is package installation, you have a dozen ways to do it and
> you clearly know four or five of them.
>
> Chef, Puppet, ansible, and so forth are configuration
> management systems.
OK, thanks, that's a good definition ...
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