Chef Build-Essential Cookbook Overriding Convergence

I have a basic role cookbook that calls a couple of recipes:

include_recipe 'base'
include_recipe 'my_postgresql'

My base cookbook has all of my custom yum repositories in it. The postgresql cookbook (a dependency of 'my_postgresql' wrapper cookbook has a dependency on build-essential. My problem is that when I run chef-client build-essential is being called first which is failing because nothing has been configured for yum.

How can I make it so my base cookbook is the very first thing called on every chef-client run?

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