Multiple package installs with subordinates?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> The trouble with atpdaemon and aptdcon is that they are not installed
> by default. So you can still conflict installing aptdaemon.

If we agreed to use it, I'd expect juju itself to deploy it.

> Perhaps the right thing to do is go down the path that I had suggested
> with charmhelper2 which is to have a declarative file listing packages
> desired, and then we can solve the problem by iterating on a single tool
> rather than all charms.

That'd mean a charm has to use a fixed set of packages. I think we
should solve the underlying issue, no matter what.

> The whole point of subordinates is that they are *not* separated from
> the primary charm by containers.

Indeed. That'd be co-location, which is coming too.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net