Puppet

This patch changes the default package type for gentoo, which results in backward-compatibility issues. I’m not willing to accept such a patch unless José, who has been the Gentoo maintainer, signs off on it.

Also, this creates a new parameter that no one else can use. Do other package types have this capability? Should this be a provider feature?

As for the extra parameter, how about adding a parameter to package like pkgmgr_extra_opts which one would use to pass a string to the package manager which would get appended to the command line call, thereby passing extra options specific for one package manager? So that e.g.

package{ "postfix":
   ensure => absent,
   provider => paludis,
   pkg_mgr_extra_opts => "--with-unused-dependencies"
}

would work as intended by the original patch author.

I’ve added some known Gentoo people to the ticket to see if I can get some testing before we release.

Code is at:

http://github.com/jamtur01/puppet/tree/tickets%2F0.24.x%2F741

i have no idea if the paludis provider works, but please do never make it the default provider for gentoo