Oh, no, this works perfectly. I just *hate* having to stuff all of that
into the name. It makes the hash of options completely pointless.

I want the name/title to be arbitrary and the rest to "just work".
Unfortunately, I haven't found the special sauce for this yet.

Trevor


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:29 AM, David Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09.03.2014 03:39, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>
>> In theory a composite namevar could be used if you just specify the
>> provider.
>>
>> For instance, on a Red Hat system:
>>
>> package { 'foo': ensure => 'latest' } ==> namevar == foo:yum
>>
>> And
>>
>> package { 'foo': ensure => 'latest', provider => 'gem' } ==> namevar ==
>> foo:gem
>>
>> That said, I never could get composite namevars to work this way. I
>> always had to have a unique name which ended up in something silly like
>> package { 'foo_rpm':} or package { 'foo_gem':} which, while it should
>> work, is absolutely horrible to read.
>>
>
> That was my understanding how composite namevars should have worked from
> the beginning. Sadly, this seems "too complex" or "not useful enough" to be
> actually implemented. It would even help for multi-arch and multi-versions
> installations: "foo:1.0:i386:yum" vs "foo:2.0:amd64:yum".
>
>
> Regards, David
>
>
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