metadata.rb "depends" about chef-web-docs-2016 HOT 1 CLOSED

Updated. I removed the brutal sentence and made a couple of small tweaks. It was a brutal sentence for sure. All of your feedback has been very detailed and helpful and it is appreciated. It'll take this build a little while to make it all the way to the published pages, as this change was made down in the /swaps folder (the build has to completely and fully rebuild in that situation).

James

From: Jeff Blaine [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 11:47 AM
To: opscode/chef-docs
Subject: [chef-docs] metadata.rb "depends" (#45)

I think the docs for 'depends' should be clarified further.

[14:39] So 'depends' in metadata.rb does not do anything other than require that the depended-upon cookbook is fetched from the server, correct?
[14:40] jblaine: yep
[14:40] It does not, specifically, execute any recipes from the depended-upon cookbook unless told to.
[14:40] So 'depends foo' does not run recipe[foo] unless "include_recipe "foo"" is used
[14:40] jblaine: no, but as the 'required' recipes are being loaded things like attributes, library files, LWRPs etc will be read

Related, this sentence is brutal: :)

This field should be used whenever a feature that is included in another
cookbook should be run when this cookbook is run, such as including recipes,
using the same resources or providers in lightweight resource providers, custom
libraries, or definitions.

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