[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#484014: Bug#484014: This is a local policy decision

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 10:58:13 UTC 2008


also sprach Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> [2008.11.29.2120 +0000]:
> But more fundamentally, if you want to use /etc/cron.*, there's no
> reason to use the Puppet cron type at all.  Just use a simple file
> type and install the fragment of your choice.  That's what makes
> /etc/cron.* so nice -- there's no need to support multiple
> processes changing the same file or all the complexity that
> Puppet's cron type abstracts.

Excellent point. I am now going to hide back under my rock. :)

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