Not having any problem with osfamily i agree with John.
A default to 'common' would suffice i believe.

Stefan.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:43 PM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote:

>
>
> On Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:37:29 AM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
>
>>
>> I propose extending the module layout with a data/ directory that can go
>> into each module and in this data directory would live a hiera config
>> file (optionally) and module specific data:
>>
> [...]
>
>> Here the data/hiera.json is optional and specifies a hierarchy that the
>> module author chooses and is unique to the specific backend.
>>
>> The default contents would be this is the file is absent:
>>
>>    {"hierarchy": ["osfamily/%{osfamily}", "common"]}
>>
>>
> Having thought about this some more, I still think it's a great idea, but
> giving special support to 'osfamily' in the default in-module hierarchy
> seems a bit smelly to me.  I don't doubt that categorizing data by osfamily
> would be a frequent practice, but making a special case for it straight off
> the bat doesn't feel right to me.
>
> Certainly the default osfamily support wouldn't be directly harmful to
> users, inasmuch as they can easily ignore or override it, but I
> nevertheless urge you to keep it simple.  The backlog of open tickets
> attests to the fact that PL doesn't really have enough engineering capacity
> as it is.
>
>
> John
>
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