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On Friday 09 May 2008, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On May 9, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the exact syntax, but I do think that there
> > should be
> > a "sticky" relation feature (possibly with another feature to
> > "unstick"
> > that).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I definitely want something like this feature -- I think I filed it as
> an enhancement request a while ago.
>
> Really, what we need is a way to specify a relationship to all
> resources matching a given query, or of a given type.
>
> I'm kind of thinking the idea of using our existing query language --
> File <| ... |> -- combined with overrides *might* work, but it would
> look silly because most times you wouldn't have any parameters:
>
> Package <| |> { require => Exec[blah] }
>
> I've been thinking of adding something like this anyway because people
> sometimes need to override values in collected resources.
> Generalizing this syntax into a query syntax that allowed you to
> perform operations on sets of resources would be a good idea.
I believe I wrote something up about this a while ago, although I cannot find
it anymore.
Syntaxwise this would tie in best for me in the override syntax:
Package[*] { require => Class[apt] }
Although this would of course immediately lead to a loop on Package[apt].
Regards, DavidS
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