On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This kind of thing would be well-supported by the ability to do something
>> like include defaults (and maybe variables) from one class into another -
>> akin to including a Module in ruby. E.g., with this setup:
>>
>> class apt {
>> Package { provider => apt }
>> }
>>
>> class main {
>> extend_with apt
>> }
>>
>> That would take all of the defaults and add them to main, as though they
>> were defined in main directly.
>>
>> Would that provide sufficient equivalent functionality?
>
> So you'd have to do this in every single class in which you defined a
> package resource? That seems less optimal to me.
And another thought along these lines... Doesn't this entirely
preclude using other people's modules and still enforcing your own
resource defaults for base resource types? I really don't think it's
feasible to approach defaults in this manner.
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