[chef] Prevent resource from triggering multiple times in a single run

[Mark Selby < >]

remote_file “/var/tmp/somefile” do
    source “http://binfiles/somefile”
    owner “root”
    group “root”
    mode “0644”
    action :create
end

Lets just suppose that this is a somewhat expensive operation that may 
need to get called multiple times during a converge depending on what 
recipes the node is running. I would like to say “do not execute this 
resource if it has already been triggered during this run”

I would also not like to use a marker file if I can avoid it.

I know we have delayed execution but that is not what I want. I need 
this to trigger on the first call and then not again. Can I use the 
run_status or run_context to accomplish this?

Thanks!