[chef-dev] Re: Homebrew As OS X Default Package Provider

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Yeah, I think this falls in the same category as git, svn, easy_install, and 
(in some cases) powershell, where we provide resources that depend on 
functionality that isn’t available out of the box. It’s a bit weird that this 
is a package resource that requires extra config before you can use it, but 
that’s OS X for you.  

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Daniel DeLeo


On Friday, July 25, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten wrote:

> We haven't needed to add macports to the omnibus-client or dev toolchain. I 
> think the same is true for homebrew.
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> On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Matt Ray 
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> > If the default package manager is Homebrew, does this mean we need to
> > add it to the omnibus-client package for OSX? What about the whole OSX
> > dev toolchain?
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> > Thanks,
> > Matt Ray
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> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Waldo G 
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> > > Agreed.
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> > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Dreamcat4 
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> > > > Yes.
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> > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten
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> > > > > I may be a MacPorts package maintainer, but this is the right 
> > > > > default. +1
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> > > > > On Jul 24, 2014, at 3:17, Joshua Timberman 
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> > > > > Ohai Chefs!
> > > > >  
> > > > > I opened an issue in chef-rfc about making homebrew the default 
> > > > > provider
> > > > > for the package resource on OS X systems.
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> > > > > https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/issues/28
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> > > > > While I'd like to see this happen for Chef 12, I think given the
> > > > > backwards compatibility issue makes that too aggressive. I'd love 
> > > > > to hear
> > > > > folks thoughts though. Please comment!
> > > > >  
> > > > > Thank you,
> > > > > Joshua
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