Request for design critique - configuration directories

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:19:00 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> > > 4. Here's the tricky part.  Not every file is interpreted by every
> > > program.  Initially, only files with the extensions ".ntpd" and
> > > ".refclockd" are interpreted by ntpd. Other files are skipped.  
> > 
> > Please no.  If you must, consider doing something like fontconfig
> > (conf.avail vs. conf.d) and have two directories that are traversed
> > for ntpd and refclockd, respectively.  
> 
> My model here is the way apache2 config snippets work.  What's your
> actual issue with it?

Not any Apache snippet I have ever seen.  I have seen no Apache
with file suffixes.  Got a link to an example?

RGDS
GARY
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