Re: requesting clarification of slapd.conf-versus-slapd.d configuration

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > Eric Irrgang wrote:
> >
> > > I'm also a little confused by the intended behavior of include files.
> > slapd.conf include directives are only preserved in the config directory
> > for purposes of documentation, they are never reprocessed.
>
> This is indeed confusing. I'd rather drop this.

Then people would just be confused and ask "where did all of my include 
statements go?" At this point the code does what it does and given what 
other work needs to be done, it's not worth any effort to change this. 
Instead, the docs should be updated to explain what's going on.
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