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On 03/05/13 10:50 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
>On 05/03/2013 10:25 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>> I agree. I believe the natural order of things is:
>>
>> - Default value in source code
>> - Overridden by value in config file
>> - Overridden by value in environment variable
>> - Overridden by value given as command line option
>>
>> Basically due to the relative permanence of each. If you are running a
>> program by hand with direct CLI options - you probably want the option
>> you give to work. If you wanted the options in the config file to
>> happen, you'd probably just start the service as usual.
>
>Agreed. This is generally the default behavior of most programs,
>including the python-gflags module that oslo.config replaced in Nova.
>

Awesome, thanks for the feedback guys!

I filed a bug in oslo to track this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo/+bug/1176817

I'd also like to know the impact this change would have throughout
OpenStack. 

Are existing services actually relying on this behavior?

Cheers,
FF

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