On Thursday 03 September 2009, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> > It would be bad from a discoverability standpoint to have some variables
> > be additive, and others ablative. They should all behave the same way;
> > and the only sensible way IMHO is current behavior.
>
> But maybe the global config could be made available as $GlobalConf{xyz}
> within the per-host config?

That also looks like a good alternative to me.

> I remember having tried the same thing - that is, I want a set of default
> excludes, then extend then for one host. Currently, I have to repeat the
> whole default config just to append one more directory to the excludes.

Same here.

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