----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Burgess" <matthew.2.burg...@gmail.com>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:52:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Shorten require list
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM, <ge...@timble.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an Exec which requires a lot of packages (15-20):
> >
> > Exec { 'name':
> > ...
> > require => [ Package['first'], Package['second'], Package['third'], ... ]
> > }
> >
> > Is there a way to shorten this list and make it easier to read?
>
> 15-20 packages for one exec statement? That seems excessive. What
> does that exec statement look like, at the moment, the only way I can
> imagine an exec statement requiring that number of packages is by it
> being a pipeline of 15 commands, each of which comes from a separate
> package.
if the packages are in a class, just require Class["foo"].
If the packages are tagged by some shared name 'foo':
Package<| tag == "foo" |> -> Exec["name"]
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