Merge pull request #31456 from RabidCicada/clarify-requisites-doc

Clarified the form of requisite targets/requisite-references
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Nicole Thomas 2016-02-24 09:24:00 -07:00
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The Salt requisite system is used to create relationships between states. The
core idea being that, when one state is dependent somehow on another, that
inter-dependency can be easily defined.
inter-dependency can be easily defined. These dependencies are expressed by
declaring the relationships using state names and ID's or names. The
generalized form of a requisite target is ``<state name> : <ID or name>``.
The specific form is defined as a :ref:`Requisite Reference
<requisite-reference>`
Requisites come in two types: Direct requisites (such as ``require``),
and requisite_ins (such as ``require_in``). The relationships are