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There's an open issue for it:
<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/99>

I just marked that as on deck to discuss and prioritize soon, as it's definitely come up many times now. (cc <@U84HBHXS8>)

Note that we've been able to work around its absence with our "dynamic providers" feature, which lets you hook into and perform operations (like `ssh` commands) during an update. If you want help going down that path, let us know a bit more about your specific scenario, and I'm sure we can help get you going in a direction.

I am aware of the github issue. I thought there might be an unofficial "workaround", which it seems you just described