> Writing explicit dependencies literally what Puppet -- or any other config management system -- is about. Puppet cannot possibly know what your intent is. So

> Writing explicit dependencies literally what Puppet -- or any other config management system -- is about. Puppet cannot possibly know what your intent is. So you have to tell it. Other tools just execute manifests top to bottom, which is a much less error-prone approach. I agree that finding the right abstraction level for modules (and for reuse) is not well solved.