Use system installed "puppet" binary

[njam]

I suggest to use the puppet binary on the user/system's PATH, instead of the one installed with the puppet gem.

Both Puppetlabs and librarian-puppet recommend installing puppet with the provided installer packages, and not with rubygems:
rodjek/librarian-puppet#38
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/install_gem.html

This will allow the user to use the puppet version he wants to use.

Additionally it avoids problems with mixing GEM_HOMEs between system ruby, vagrant and vagrant-librarian-puppet (only when running bundle exec vagrant in the repo?).

@mhahn wdyt?

[jhoblitt]

@njam How would this work with the dependency gems that will be installed by vagrant?

[njam]

@jhoblitt which dependency gems do you mean? Some that have binaries on the PATH?

[jhoblitt]

@njam Gems which have a dependency on the puppet gem.

[njam]

Not sure if I correctly understand what you mean :D

You mean that vagrant-librarian-puppet wouldn't be able to use the puppet command of the puppet gem anymore, that is installed as a dependency (via gemspec)?

That's correct, and I think it's better that users install puppet through the proper release channels as recommended by puppetlabs. Also librarian-puppet will tell the user to do it.

wdyt?