On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Felix Frank <
felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 01/20/2012 11:34 PM, Cody wrote:
> > Defining all somewhat common packages in a central location becomes
> > unrealistic when you no longer "control" the code that is in every
> > module you use. If you obtain five modules from the forge and they
> > all require a specific package and so all define that package your not
> > going to convince, nor is it a good design to require everyone to move
> > the package definitions from that collection of modules. They need to
> > function as a collection out of the box.
>
> Agreed. How can this be accomplished?
>
Felix, could you take this to a new thread please? I'd really like to keep
this one focused on the topic at hand if possible :)
>
> Perhaps there needs to be some kind of "Forge common" module that by
> policy can only ever declare virtual resources (packages are a prominent
> example).
> A user who wishes to retain the capability of using modules from the
> Forge would be required to install this common module, and replace their
> own resource declarations with realizations of the common resources.
> For this to work, it's definitely a plus that you can override
> attributes in collections:
> Package<| title == "apache2": |> { ensure => "2.2.12" }
> ...although that does bear some caveats. Does this still work in recent
> versions?
>
> If we can take this for granted, all Forge modules can adhere to that
> same standard.
>
> Yes, it's quite a hassle.
>
> No, I didn't think this through very thoroughly ;-)
>
> Just another pair of cents.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
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