[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Chained dependencies management

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Kevin Nuckolls
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> My opinion (and I don't know if it's a very popular one), is that
> include_recipe is an anti-pattern when used between cookbooks. It deeply
> couples the implementation details of two separate cookbooks. When using
> open sourced cookbooks that use include_recipe, you often are required to
> use the specific cookbooks that one was written against.
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> My solution has been that cookbooks and recipes are to be written in
> isolation and be heavily managed by attributes. A piece of software and _all
> of it's dependencies_ should be wrapped up in the run_lists in one nice
> little role. That way anyone composing a new node merely has to choose from

Hear, hear! I wholeheartedly agree.