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The point is omnibus tactics will always be used to circumvent debate and controversy.

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Quick take

An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of omnibus gathered in one view.

noun

An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

noun

A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

noun

an omnibus box

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for omnibus.

Example sentences

1

The point is omnibus tactics will always be used to circumvent debate and controversy.

2

Every monolithic Omnibus package has its own copy of each dependency, so you end up with duplicated binaries.

3

In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.

4

More than 100k organizations use GitLab with Omnibus and it has lowered our support effort enormously.

5

If you want to circumvent debate and controversy, get all your buddies together and write up an omnibus agreement or bill.

6

Be aware that the book called _Firefall_ is an omnibus edition of both books.

7

I started the Omnibus to collect a set of examples that people can just use to get going.

8

But I haven't found vagrant very fragile at all since Mitchell moved to omnibus (quite a while back).

9

If you have full control of your stack, I would say Omnibus is a waste of time.

10

You wouldn't compile against an Omnibus package, but they are there anyway.

11

I've been using Omnibus extensively since they introduced it at ChefConf'13...and I just spent the last two weeks cleansing my infrastructure of anything Omnibus related in favor of using Packer + Amazon AMI's.

12

And yes, Omnibus is an abomination and Docker is much better.

Quote examples

1

And "The New Turing Omnibus" seems really under-cited to me.

2

Debian and Fedora do packaging better than Docker, relatively speaking, but they still have major issues that have lead to "solutions" like Docker, Chef/Omnibus, etc.

3

> Debian and Fedora do packaging better than Docker, relatively speaking, but they still have major issues that have lead to "solutions" like Docker, Chef/Omnibus, etc.

4

More specifically, Docker is a far better solution than the abomination known as the "omnibus package," namely the gigantic RPM or DEB file that barfs thousands of libraries and other crap all over your system (that may conflict with what you have).

Proper noun examples

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Omnibus does nothing to resolve the real issues behind dependency management, it just masks it by bundling everything in a single package.

2

Omnibus is a great project with a lot of contributors, but users beware - it comes at a price of time and complexity.

3

However, there is a significant learning curve and investment of time required for the debugging process in order to get your package building with Omnibus.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use omnibus in a sentence?

The point is omnibus tactics will always be used to circumvent debate and controversy.

What does omnibus mean?

An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

What part of speech is omnibus?

omnibus is commonly used as noun, adjective.