[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Application cookbook

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Tim Diggins 
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 wrote:
> Yes, the dependency on "irrelevant" cookbooks makes me feel somehow nervous
> - it feels somehow hacky.

The dependencies are tightly coupled like this to ensure you get all
the possible things you might need from various cookbooks because Chef
(and knife) don't know what you're going to want out of a cookbook
that provides a number of features like this application cookbook
does. This is somewhat a side effect of the Chef Server itself being
only a publishing service that executes no arbitrary code in cookbooks
to determine what might be needed to distribute to clients.

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