One of the things I've noticed is that puppet doesn't handle indirect usage or reference of resources. For instance, there's the often cited case of wanting to upgrade vulnerable packages, but only if they're present on the system. It would be nice to be able to pull in more system information like packages installed, but not have to manage them. However, I've got a (possibly bizarre) solution to this. In theory, we could have facter use puppet resource or self.instances on providers to get the current system state and then inject that back into puppet as variables. This would depend on namespaced and structured variables being present on facter, but that should be coming down the pipe in the near future. Would this be a good approach to solve the given problem?
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