Puppet users - Dec 2013 - Puppet 3.4.0 name as an array in package

Puppet 3.4 is out and broke an very usefull undocument feature.

Previsiously, one can write :

    package {'bla':
        ensure => present,
        name => ['pkg1', 'pkg2']
    }

and it will install pkg1 and pkg2.

It now says :
 Parameter name failed on Package['blab']: Name must be a String not
Array at /etc/puppet/modules/...


I know this was undocument, considered as a bad practice. But I used it
intensively because it provides a quick solution to 3 problems :
- a small performance gain, it reduce the number of call to your package manage
(at least in redhat) because it executes 'yum ... pkg1 pkg2' once
- easier to read dependency, 'bla' was a symbolic name for a dependency
set, and I could easily wrote :
 require => Package['bla']
 what ever the real packages list it was.
- a easer solution to multiple dependencies for the same package, as I could
write :
in openssh module :
package {'openssh':
	name => ['openssl', ...]
}

package {'https':
	name => ['openssl', ...]
}
without any complication to solve it. Yum would just be called twice for the
same package.

quick clean, very readable. I loved this feature^Wbug.

I don't really hope to get this back, but can some on help on clean and
quick alternative solution for the same feature set ?

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