[Puppet-users] "Found a bug" message when purging services

[Luke Kanies]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:

> Ah, that makes sense.
>
> What I had assumed, and was testing, was that all services not  
> defined would be stopped.  That way I didn't have to know all of  
> the services that might be installed to only start the ones that I  
> wanted.

Do others think this is reasonable behaviour?

If so, I might make 'purge' accept multiple values, with 'true' being  
equivalent to 'absent', and anything else being the value sent on to  
the resources.  E.g., you could then do:

   resources { service: purge => stopped }

to stop all unmanaged services.

The 'purge' name starts to be a bit weird here, but eh.

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