[chef] How to deal with cookbook dependence for other Distro/OS's

[Zuhaib Siddique < >]

Hey,

So it seems some of the cookbooks from Opscode by default set depends 
statements in their metadata.rb for cookbooks that are required by a 
particular OS/Distro.  In the case of say tomcat cookbook it sets jpackage as 
a dependence but you only need that for RPM base Distro's.  Since I am 
deploying on a Ubuntu box I am not included jpackage in the run list and that 
made it very unhappy.  So I just removed it from the metadata.rb but I am 
just wondering if this is what is expected to be done by the cookbook 
provided by opscode?

Thanks
Zuhaib