[chef] Re: Re: Re: Augeas support

[jfotop < >]

I would also like to express my opinion and 2 of the issues mentioned in this
thread.

1) First of all, I have been using file_edit inside of a template file,
creating idempotent file edits. Anything I want to change is added to an
attribute.All this requires is minimal coding in the .erb file. I could help
anyone that's interested.

2) On the matter of CentOS-Redhat... I have also created my own cookbooks for
apache, php and others.I haven't uploaded anything because I made them for my
own specific needs and they are CentOS-oriented. But I have thought about
creating community versions, just haven't gotten to it yet and didn't really
know that so many people had a problem with the debian-oriented ones. 
Anyway, the ideal cookbook for me, would be an OS agnostic version, that,
depending on the platform, would install and confgure it the redhat way or the
debian way..or even the windows way. That's what providers do, isn't it? So a
resource could even provide a setting for the platform.. And why not create OS
based cookbooks. Even if there is an organization that wants all it's systems
configured and deployed the debian-way for inter-organization uniformity, so
one could, for example, check a specific path for all apache log files despite
the OS, the resource could provide a "platform" attribute that would specify
the "Redhat" way, or the "debian" way, or the "freebsd" way.

Sorry for the long and tiring post..