karmi/cookbook-elasticsearch — comment on commit a68822a1c37594b45dbf1d5c8cf7a63b7af7cf53
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By karmi:

Hi, it's not required in a strict sense, but some underlying commands (such as `service elasticsearch status`) do depend on Curl. And wherever is ES installed, a Curl should be installed, so we can check cluster health or something. So this seems to me like a fine middle ground.

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