On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: > I seriously recommend it :) Sorry, I wasn't sure if Les' response was > overly sarcastic ;) No, I was just wondering about the tradeoff in time spent learning yet another system-specific template language vs just executing the commands directly (in windows, in parallel so you don't have to wait...). For 100+ similar machines I'd expect it to be worth it. Not that automation isn't good, but if you have the list of packages you want to install in the first place, it's not all that hard to do it yourself. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com