This could work.  I'll play with that to see what I can do.

Thanks for the replies!
Jason

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Peter Bukowinski <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:52 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?
>
>
> Here's a quick-and-dirty rejiggering that keeps the same functionality:
>
> class default_class {
>    class{ 'ntp': }
>    class{ 'dns': }
>    class{ 'monitoring': }
>    class{ 'puppet_agent': }
> }
>
> node 'myweb' {
>    require default_class
>    class{ 'web': }
> }
>
> node 'mydb' {
>    require default_class
>    class{ 'db': }
> }
>
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