[Pkg-puppet-devel] "Tools should be distinct from Services"

[Russ Allbery]

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at fnord.no> writes:

> The fast, easy and possible wrong solution is to disable the puppet
> service  by default in the puppet package.

I like Debian's general strategy of having daemons run if you install the
daemon package.

> A solution I favour is to create one package for the puppet service, one
> for the puppetmaster service, and one common package both depend on.
> This means we move a lot of things from the puppet package to a
> puppet-common package.  That way we can make puppetmaster (and puppet)
> depend on puppet-common.

I think this is the right solution.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>