You might be interested in Salt's requisite statements: http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/ordering.html#requisite-statements http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/st

You might be interested in Salt's requisite statements: http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/ordering.html#requisite-statements http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/states/ordering.html#requisite... In combination with service.running you can require that, for example, package x is installed, and its service is running, before service y is started.