[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: dependency spaghetti

[Tollef Fog Heen < >]

]] Noah Kantrowitz 

> There has been a long running concept to turn #suggests into an
> optional form of #depends, so it would have the same effect as depends
> if the cookbook is found in terms of triggering a download and loading
> in the right order, but wouldn't cause a failure if that cookbook
> wasn't found. Maybe after I get this dialect stuff squared away I'll
> write up that patch :)

As a minor nit, it'd be nice to use recommends for this, rather than
suggests, to be more in line with what the terms mean in Debian
packaging.  (A Suggests is a weaker Recommends which is a weaker
Depends.)  The exact semantics won't line up, but having the strength of
them line up would be less confusing.

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