simonsd/puppet-puppet — pull request #1 by arioch (2011-11-08 15:51:37+00:00)
Title: /etc/default/puppet serves a different purpose than the actual puppet con

/etc/default/puppet serves a different purpose than the actual puppet configuration itself.
It's used for distro specific tasks only.

Since all above mentioned distros use the same location for the puppet.conf file... default is sufficient for now.