[chef] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Role Versioning?

[Brian Akins < >]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Kevin Keane Subscription
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> A third difference is that I don't need to declare all the cookbooks as
> dependency in my top-level cookbook.

And that's a good thing? Interested to hear more about your thoughts
about this. I personally like having to declare those dependencies.

> With include_recipe, I may have
> dependencies on many cookbooks that aren't even relevant to a particular
> server.

Like yum dependencies on an ubuntu box.  That always bugged me as
well, but I finally just started ignoring it.

> Of course you can still declare a dependency in the metadata if you need it
> to lock down a version number. You just don't *have* to do it for all your
> recipes.

The run_list.add doesn't trigger the foodcritic test, which is also a
negative I think.

Always interesting to hear approaches that are different from mine.

--Brian