>Can you imagine how irritating the latency would be trying to use a shell on Mars? I can I have Comcast. But on a serious note I think for applications like t

>Can you imagine how irritating the latency would be trying to use a shell on Mars? I can I have Comcast. But on a serious note I think for applications like this a Puppet/Chef style recipe will be used. A complex series of checks and bounds before and after the changes have been applied and if anything sightly goes awry, revert back to the previous working condition.