[chef-dev] Best practice for cross platform cookbook dependencies?

[Peter Loron < >]

I'm working on extending the existing nodejs cookbook to support installs on 
Windows. This brings up a bit of a conundrum…if I do this, I'm going to take 
a dependency hit on the "windows" cookbook. This will cause non-windows shops 
to now have another cookbook they don't need. On the flip side, windows-only 
shops will have the useless to them "apt" cookbook.

Is there a solution that the community prefers? I could roll this out as a 
separate cookbook, but I would prefer to keep it all in one. Just eat the 
extra dependency overhead?

Thanks.

-Pete