On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 01:13 +0100, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
On Dec 21, 2006, at 7:37, seth vidal wrote:
> If we start tying down ruby or any other language as we move along we
> end up having more and more pieces of the OS that we cannot deploy new
> versions of w/o fear of breaking our administrative infrastructure.
I'm sorry, that's just FUD.
You're using FUD like it is its own thing. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt
are things that a sysadmin must weigh when evaluating tools.
As someone else pointed out: It's really not reasonable to say
"oh,
we don't trust we won't break our own packages so let's not use
them". Dog food and all. In particular not if the worst case
scenario is to login to each box manually to downgrade a bad RPM to
get the administration infrastructure going again.
If you can login.
But let's be clear, I don't really care enough about this argument to
continue it. If y'all want to use puppet, do so or something.
-sv