Issue #4113 has been updated by Jo Rhett.

I agree, but you guys are refusing to implement simple, good, working things 
because you want to do it right -- but then you aren't doing it right either.  
I understand that doing it right takes some time.  I don't understand why we 
can't get the simple things (which would work for most people) into place 
quickly.
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Feature #4113: Allow provider-specific options as a first class part of the RAL 
model.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4113#change-77713

Author: Oliver Hookins
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 3.x
Affected Puppet version: 0.25.5
Keywords: 
Branch: 


http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/2ef615fc42225d99?pli=1

Our requirement is more or less the same as in the linked thread, we need to 
use a proxy to install gems but for a variety of reasons can't set a global 
proxy on the machines. Thus some way of passing options to gem is necessary.

(Nigel) - We should do this consistently across providers, perhaps combining 
with the "preseed" functionality of apt/dpkg.

Rather than doing this as a generic "pass unstructured data" hack, we should 
resolve this by allowing provider-specific parameters to be first class 
elements in declarations:

<pre>
package { example:
  provider => something,
  something_specific_parameter => value
}
</pre>

That should cover more than just packages - extending to all types.  Requiring 
the provider to be explicitly specified is preferable to allowing it to be 
inferred when non-type parameters or properties are present.

It is unclear if both properties and parameters should be supported, or if only 
parameters should be allowed.


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