RFC - changing requisites/excludes

[waynew]

RFC text: https://github.com/waynew/salt/blob/rfc-changing-requisites/rfcs/0005-change-requisite-handling.md

There were some suggestions made on #6237 about how we should do requisites/excludes, but no actual decisions made.

I'm making this RFC so if we decide to not make code changes we have a place to point and say, "This is why."

Alternatively, if we decide it's something we want to change, well, there we go!

[thatch45]

I think this is a really good idea, but I also think that we should make sure that this would be configurable. Part of the benefit of having excludes not remove requisites is that if you break something with an exclude then you would want to know about it.

Also, if you want this behavior today then the correct way to make the requisites would be to use requisite_ins from the states that might be excluded to that you are able to apply intent directionally

[waynew]

@thatch45 I like making the new behavior opt-in. I've updated the RFC to specify that. I've got a couple of things to check/confirm. The biggest question I have right now, is --exclude-before-requisites too wordy for a command line argument? 😆

[thatch45]

I think that argument would be fine :)

[s0undt3ch]

Both --ebr, --exclude-before-requisites for the same option?

[thatch45]

Sounds resonable

[waynew]

Migrated to the SEP repo: saltstack/salt-enhancement-proposals#10