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I''ve been using Puppet now for a month or so and I''ve come to a problem that may warrant an additional Puppet metaparameter. I''m advocating the addition of a metaparameter called "preaction" (or something like that), which will perform some arbitrary action before the resource is modified. There may be a way to do this within Puppet already (with some carefully crafted dependencies, auxiliary files, and an exec resource with an onlyif parameter). In the end, this feels like a c...