Depressingly their competitors are no better. I've been monitoring a bug in puppet that's been open for the better part of three years for adding options like "

Depressingly their competitors are no better. I've been monitoring a bug in puppet that's been open for the better part of three years for adding options like "--enablerepo" to yum invocations. This is not technically difficult to do but they keep dithering on design issues "because it's not cross platform". (Really? Because Ubuntu and RedHat totally agree on how to name packages, where system files live, which init.d to use, and those are both Linuxes; it gets even stupider with Solaris, BSD and Windows)