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Um... This is Perfectly Legtimitate Use of CVS
Authored by: EatingPie on Nov 21, '03 06:14:01PM

I believe you've misinterpreted what he's doing. He's not using CVS to manage the environments, he's using distribute and keep his environment *files* up-to-date. This is exactly what CVS was designed to do.

And from what I've read on cfengine, it's for system administration and system configuration. Not for shell *environment* configuration (that's the job of your .bashrc/.cshrc/.tcshrc etc. files). Here's the relevant quote...

Although intended to be a scheme for system administation to be run by the superuser, cfengine can also be used a scripting language by ordinary users.

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-Pie


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