[chef] Recipe subset-ing

[Joaquin Casares < >]

Hello, 

I have cookbook X that calls many functions off of cookbook Y. But my attributes for cookbook X are a superset of cookbook Y's attributes and of the values that intersect some are different in cookbook X.

How would I go about doing this correctly?

Right now I call include_recipe "Y::recipe1" from "X::default", but it seems to overwrite all my X configs that intersect.

Should I just change cookbook X to use override instead of default settings?

Thanks for the help!

Joaquin