Emanuele Francioni

I catch your drift. Even though the provider action is just a tiny layer on top of the command, making the actions explicit already helps readability a lot and, I suppose, also correctness.

Thx

It would also be nice to know if you have any suggestions how to do that... I agree that executing commands is not really idempotent, but it is also true that sometimes Chef is kind of cryptic when it comes to extend its Providers and Resources.