It seems you are using this as a way to classify nodes. Your best option is to 
use  an ENC (Foreman or Hiera) to classify your nodes, ideally using the roles 
and profiles pattern to abstract your modules.

> On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Jason Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This doesn't make me happy, but fine. Major versions let you have breaking 
> changes.
> 
> My question is this: What do I replace it with?
> 
> My use case is as follows:
> 
> ------------------------------------
> node default {
>    class{ 'ntp': }
>    class{ 'dns': }
>    class{ 'monitoring': }
>    class{ 'puppet_agent': }
> }
> 
> node 'myweb' inherits default {
>    class{ 'web': }
> }
> 
> node 'mydb' inherits default {
>    class{ 'db': }
> }
> -----------------------------------
> 
> This has several very useful features:
> 1) Everything 'standard' is nicely encapsulated in the 'default' node.  
> 2) Everything in 'default' resolves and is complete before anything in 'web' 
> or 'db' is done. This means I don't have to go crazy about 'requires' and 
> 'notify' for these resources. They're already done.
> 
> So: What do I do instead which handles the two features?  I could easily 
> build a new class with everything in the default node... But that fails the 
> second piece. I'd have to build a nasty anchor pattern in every node to 
> ensure that everything in default resolves first... which is ugly.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Jason
> 
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