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Hi Alan, |
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On 26.09.2013 22:42, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> You will break things horribly and will curse the day you tried. |
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> Basically, puppet and portage will get in each other's way and clobber |
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> each other. Puppet has no concept of USE flags worth a damn, cannot |
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> determine in advance what an ebuild will provide and the whole thing |
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> breaks puppet's 100% deterministic model. |
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> Puppet is designed to work awesomely well with binary distros, that is |
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> where it excels. Keep within those constraints. Same goes for chef, |
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> cfengine and various others things that accomplish the same end. |
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Did you try to combine one of these solutions with portage's binary |
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package feature? With --usepkgonly gentoo is more or less a binary |
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distro. I'm thinking of using a single use flag set for 20+ Gentoo |
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servers to get rid of compiling large packages in the live environment. |
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Regards, |
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Johann |
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