- Read up on the documentation for osxc or battle school

- Look at other configuration files to get a feel for what mine needs to look like.

- Learn about the differences between playbooks or recepies or what have you.

- Download some proprietary software that I will likely never use again.

This is all mental overhead to me.

In comparison, how do you create your own bash script? You already know how to do most of it. If not, just look at the script above. It doesn't require a genius to understand a simple bash function. This approach will take you at most, 5 minutes.

Or maybe I'm just not seeing some huge advantage of these large boxen-esque frameworks for installing some programs.