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jschoubben 49b1136ded Issues 164-168: found provisioning every dependency on ace
164 a credential that must be accepted is minted anyway
165 one accepted value must be accepted once per consumer
166 a requirement cannot be optional
167 code several modules share has no home
168 a setting reaches every file and every contribution
2026-09-30 13:28:53 +02:00

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status, opened, located-in, fixed-by, amended-design
status opened located-in fixed-by amended-design
open 2026-09-30
mesh-controller internal/catalogue (requires is a list of hard requirements)

166 — A requirement cannot be optional

What was observed

Making every dependency on ace a provision turned soft dependencies into hard ones. grafana now requires influxdb-api (a data source), ombi requires sonarr-api, radarr-api and lidarr-api, home-assistant requires the Servarr APIs and mqtt-topic. Each is optional to the software — grafana runs without a data source, ombi without lidarr — but a mesh without influxdb cannot assign grafana at all, and a mesh without lidarr cannot run ombi.

What would be right

A requirement a module can run without: resolved and bound when a provider exists, absent (with its ${bound:…} placeholders refused or defaulted explicitly, never rendered empty) when none does — so the module description stays true on every mesh.