On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Steve VanDevender <
[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the goals of effective configuration management is
> to record and control all relevant aspects of your system configuration,
> and in-place config editing does not accomplish that -- it does not
> record the complete configuration, and it does not control all aspects
> of that configuration.
>


Indeed.  The consensus in the CFEngine community is that whole file control
is the way to go, if possible, for all the reasons Steve outlined.
 (Although in-place editing can be useful.)

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