Puppet users - Apr 2014 - Service[foo] fails under --noop if its package has never been installed

Hello!

I'm running `apply --noop` regularly.  I would really like to also 
do it on a fresh machine before changing bits on the disk. 
Unfortunately this fails for Service types because their init 
scripts don't yet exist.  For example, take ntp:

    package { "ntp":
      ensure => present,
    } ->
    service { "ntp":
      ensure => running,
    }

If I run `sudo puppet apply --noop foo.pp` I get:

    Debug: /Stage[main]/Main/Service[ntp]/require: requires 
    Package[ntp]
    Info: Applying configuration version '1396455554'
    Debug: Prefetching apt resources for package
    Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/dpkg-query -W --showformat 
    '${Status} ${Package} ${Version}\n''
    Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/dpkg-query -W --showformat 
    '${Status} ${Package} ${Version}\n' ntp'
    Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Package[ntp]/ensure: current_value 
    purged, should be present (noop)
    Debug: /Stage[main]/Main/Package[ntp]: The container 
    Class[Main] will propagate my refresh event
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp.conf 
    in /etc/init
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp.conf 
    in /etc/init.d
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp in 
    /etc/init
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp in 
    /etc/init.d
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp.sh 
    in /etc/init
    Debug: Service[ntp](provider=upstart): Could not find ntp.sh 
    in /etc/init.d
    Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Service[ntp]: Could not evaluate: 
    Could not find init script or upstart conf file for 'ntp'

I get why this fails.  Package["ntp"] hasn't written anything to 
disk during the dry run, so Service["ntp"] can't find the right 
pieces that it would have needed.  I was hoping the 
`Package["ntp"] -> Service["ntp"]` relationship would
have
accounted for this.

This thread from years ago touches on this but quickly gets into a 
semantic discussion about include/require: 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/vTDoxY3OdNI/HOWeN_ZhDJ8J.

I'm mostly curious if I'm cutting across the grain here.  I'm 
relatively new to Puppet.  Is --noop not universally useful for 
dry runs?  If it is, how can I work around this issue?

Thanks!

Drew

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