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On 7 Nov 2014 16:57, "Ian Wienand" <<a href="mailto:iwienand@redhat.com">iwienand@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 10/29/2014 12:42 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:<br>
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>> Another way to do this, which has been used in some other projects,<br>
>> is to define one option for a list of “names” of things, and use<br>
>> those names to make groups with each field<br>
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> I've proposed that in [1]. I look forward to some -1's :)<br>
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>> OTOH, oslo.config is not the only way we have to support<br>
>> configuration. This looks like a good example of settings that are<br>
>> more complex than what oslo.config is meant to handle, and that<br>
>> might be better served in a separate file with the location of that<br>
>> file specified in an oslo.config option.<br>
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> My personal opinion is that yet-another-config-file in possibly<br>
> yet-another-format is just a few lines of code, but has a pretty high<br>
> cost for packagers, testers, admins, etc. So I feel like that's<br>
> probably a last-resort.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Mangling hardware data into an obtuse format is harder than it needs to be. Dropping a new file in /etc is very ready for a deployer.</p>