[chef-dev] Re: CHEF-3747 - Compile Time Packages

[Tollef Fog Heen < >]

]] Daniel DeLeo 

> I've also come across some discussions arguing that moving resources
> to compile time is an anti pattern. Personally I think its fine for
> one-off hacks, but I'm wary of baking it deeper into core
> Chef.

Agreed, one of the wonderful features of chef is that it allows you to
do those hacks when you need to.

> One alternative we've been discussing here at Opscode is a refactor of
> the way that the recipe DSL is implemented such that you'd be able to
> prepend resources to the resource collection, or insert them at an
> arbitrary point, but this isn't something that would be implemented
> soon.

IIRC this works already, but you're poking around in internals.  Having
the collection exposed more explicitly would be useful, I think.

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