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Old 01-10-2013
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Originally Posted by phunk
Oh ok. I talked with him and I guess he's making more work for himself. He sets an environment variables AND a config file separately, sourcing the env.vars and then using a function to pull in config parameters.
It's not totally unreasonable to keep them separate in a big system.

It's weird to use two different kinds of files though. I'd just use VAR=name for both the environment and config file.
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