Suppose I have a class that installs packages(`profile::base::tools`) and another class that defines the yumrepos(`profile::base::yum`) required for those packages.
tools.pp:
class profile::base::tools {
$packages = [
'package1',
'package2'
]
package { $packages:
ensure => present,
}
}
Currently the way it is run is through base.pp:
base.pp:
include profile::base::yum
include profile::base::tools
Class['profile::base::yum'] -> [
Class['profile::base::tools']]
So when I run `base.pp` it creates the yum repos first and then installs the packages. Currently the dependency that the `tools.pp` requires yumrepos defined first is only mentioned in the `base.pp`. My question is if i run `tools.pp` alone(for testing purposes) it wont know about the dependency and hence fail. I can add `include profile::base::yum` in the `tools.pp` class but wanted to know if its a standard for each class to know about dependencies even if its already defined elsewhere(like in `base.pp`).
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