Can anyone think of a scenario where they would not want chef to always reconfigure between runs when daemonized?
It sounds convenient. My only fear is someone doing something unexpected like having some code that goes out and fetches some configuration settings over the network that is fine to do once when you start the client, but you don’t want happening every run.
If you’re interested, you can see discussion that lead to this question here: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/6122