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

> why not just always do the package install at the top of the recipe? If it's already installed that should be a no-op

Yes, I think you're right about that, Ryan... The `not_if` is probably useless in the end... It was maybe some guard against potential criticism "you should include `networking_basics`" or something like that...