Re: Is this quirky for a simple copy, editfiles operation?

[Brendan Strejcek]

Roy MARANTZ wrote:

> If the action list is eliminated, IMHO, there needs to be some
> mechanism to specify the ordering of actions. i.e. I need to
> run shellcommands (and others) twice in order to make sure that
> perconditions for certain actions are met. To be concrete, I need to
> blow up a tar ball before I can override some file in it.

Wouldn't it be cool if you could just do:

    shellcommands:
        did_some_command::
            "/command/that/must/come/after some/command"
        any::
            "/some/command"
                define=did_some_command

and have cfagent figure out the rest? There is no complexity or
ambiguity for the admin to sort out, and no imperative illusion.