Puppet users - Oct 2010 - Understanding puppetd --debug output

Hi all,

I''d like to comment my puppetd --debug output with some expert  or
other admin cause I see some thing that I don''t understand.

1.-) Defaults. 
I define my defaults in site.pp like:

case $operatingsystem {

        ''RedHat'' , ''CentOS'' : {
[...]
	                Package {
                        provider => yum,
                        ensure   => latest,
                }

                Service {
                        provider => redhat,
                        enable   => true
                }
[...]
}

this is some debug output:

[...]
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderRunit: file /usr/bin/sv does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderDebian: file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d does
not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderLaunchd: file /bin/launchctl does not
exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderGentoo: file /sbin/rc-update does not
exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderDaemontools: file /usr/bin/svc does not
exist
[...]

debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderNim: file /usr/sbin/nimclient does not
exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderZypper: file /usr/bin/zypper does not
exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderSunfreeware: file pkg-get does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderOpenbsd: file pkg_delete does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderApt: file /usr/bin/apt-get does not exist
[...]

why does puppet check what service/package type provider has to use if
it''s defined?

2.- ) file-metadata
I have ~hundred messages like:

debug: file_metadata supports formats: b64_zlib_yaml marshal pson raw yaml;
using pson

is it a line for each file that puppet manages?

TIA,
Arnau

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