On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Jeff McCune <[email protected]> wrote:

> If by "load everything" we're talking about something equivalent to
> include <modulepath>/**/*.pp then that's silly and should be avoided.  It
> would be a big step in the wrong direction, taking away control from the
> end user rather than giving them more control over the system.
>
> Markus suggested explicit loading.  Explicit loading is a much better
> approach.  It's more efficient, it's well understood by everyone, and it
> gives the end user explicit control over the behavior of the system.  It
> comes at the cost of a bigger impact to all of our users, but that's OK.
>  Puppet 4 shouldn't be that far off and we likely can make this behavior
> gated on a feature flag for Puppet 3.
>
>
Explicit loading would be another option. That would say that we get rid of
the manifest autoloader and require that everyone uses the import keyword.
That might be a good middle ground.


> -Jeff
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