[chef-dev] A strawman to fix platform dependencies

[Joseph Holsten < >]

If you weren't following the CHEF-2988 thread earlier, there was mention of 
using a patch for allowed_recipes and restricted_recipes to help solve the 
platform dependency situation in chef. I've been building some stuff for 
windows, and I dislike adding depends "windows" to the mysql cookbook as much 
as anyone.

I think the ideal solution is to allow cookbooks to depend on *resources*, 
and select the cookbook with the appropriate *provider* based on platform 
support, environment constraints, &c.

Anyone else had this idea? Anyone have any thoughts on why it's a bad idea?
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