Puppet users - Apr 2014 - Installing multiple packages (via apt) on one command line...

Hey we have a problem that I think we need to solve with a custom Puppet 
provider, but I could use a bit of help getting started. Overall the issue 
of being able to install multiple packages at-once has been discussed a ton 
of times (issue #2128 for example). We ultimately need to be able to pass 
in an arbitrary list of packages (and their versions) to a package-like 
provider in Puppet and have it install them all at once. For example:

  package { 'myapp':
    packages => [ 'backend=1.0', 'frontend=1.1' ],
    provider    => some_custom_provider;
  }

  Ultimately the provider would need to validate that each and every 
package supplied (backend, and frontend in this example) are either 
installed or not. If not, they are all installed on one commandline:

  aptitude install backend=1.0 frontend=1.1 -y -q -f

Should we just build a resource from scratch? or do you think we should 
build a provider for the Package resource in Puppet and go from there?

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