Hi, I was working on implementing a service provider for #5197 when I had the following thoughts:
I can run ONE command to prefetch every service (running/stoppped, enabled/disabled). This is great when I manage a lot of services and all these services are in sync. I just have to run one command in a prefetch method. But here is one problem: When I start a service gentoo will resolve dependencies and will eventually start other services as well. If I'm managing these services too puppet will try to start them eventhough they are already started (because when I prefetched they were stopped). The same can happen for a package provider. When I implement a prefetch method that detects two packages as absent, installing one package may automatically install the other package and my prefetched ensure state of that second package is outdated. For ticket #5197 I dont really know if I - should not implement a prefetch method (I will run the same command for every service just in case I have dependencies between them) - don't care about this kind of dependencies because a) the user should define them by using requires b) the user should not write a resource definition for a service that is managed by another service anyways. c) I dont mind when one service start command will fail because this service was started in the meantime - use prefetch but make sure that I refresh the property hash of all not yet applied resources after each change (dont know how to archieve that now) I would be interested in your oppinions/thoughts about that matter -Stefan
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