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

[Adam Jacob < >]

Usually it's just a matter of timing - it's easier/faster to get the support 
up to speed in a cookbook rather than wait on Chef releases. We should pull 
stuff back in when it's stable.

Adam

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From: Dimitri Aivaliotis 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:18 AM
To: Andrea Campi
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Subject: [chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FreeBSD Omnibus Support

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