It most likely has to do with creating the graph of dependencies, if we have one Package['a'] with two branches of deps it can't guarantee that it is acyclic.
-- Lowe Schmidt | +46 723 867 157 On 13 June 2016 at 12:21, Justin Rowles <justin.row...@bgch.co.uk> wrote: > At risk of bumping a now truly ancient thread (which I found because I > have a 3rd party module and one of my own which both want to control a > specific package), I don't see why puppet should complain when two > identical (or at least non-contradictory) invocations of the same resource > are found. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7a6df4fc-3d34-442b-83d2-7f3c38015973%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7a6df4fc-3d34-442b-83d2-7f3c38015973%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAC-wWcQpXxwKO1sZ1TWQWuJKRt8bstjAfzUi8iwq_7vwMFNaTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.