[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FreeBSD Omnibus Support

[Dimitri Aivaliotis < >]

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Andrea Campi
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> We also use something like that, it would be awesome to get that into the
> official freebsd cookbook.

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile: why is there a "freebsd"
cookbook?  Shouldn't Chef handle all FreeBSD-specific features as well
as it does for other supported operating systems?

I can see the use case for an individual or a company to want to have
a specific cookbook to implement things that would take too long to
get integrated into Chef itself.  But the port_options LWRP (as well
as any other optimizations/features we have lying around in private
cookbooks) would be better shared via Chef itself, IMHO.

Is there a reason not to try to get these kinds of things integrated into 
Chef?

- Dimitri