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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/documentation/howitworks.page | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/documentation/howitworks.page b/documentation/documentation/howitworks.page index 548db225d..a686c4c90 100644 --- a/documentation/documentation/howitworks.page +++ b/documentation/documentation/howitworks.page @@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ user IDs, not user names, so Puppet objects convert them appropriately. (Incidentally, sometimes Puppet is creating the user that it's chowning a file to, so whenever possible it ignores validation errors until the last minute.) -The last phase of instantiation is the *finalization* phase. One of the goals -of the Puppet language is to make file order matter as little as possible; -this means that a Puppet object needs to be able to require other objects -listed later in the manifest, which means that the required object will be -instantiated after the requiring object. So, the finalization phase is used +The last stage of the instantiation process finalizes the object dependencies. +One of the goals of the Puppet language is to make file order matter as little +as possible; this means that a Puppet object needs to be able to require other +objects listed later in the manifest, which means that the required object will +be instantiated after the requiring object. So, this finalization stage is used to actually handle all of these requirements -- Puppet objects use their references to objects and verify that the objects actually exist. |