On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:28:06PM +0000, Patrick Hemmer wrote:
> This change is rather dangerous. It's not unlikely that people will have
> multiple config files in their `/etc/haproxy` directory. Such might
> happen if users keep backups of previous versions when they make a
> change, or if they have alternate configs for different purposes.

Confirmed, that's exactly my case, and I know places where there are
configs suffixed with the date and trigram of the people having touched
them. We must definitely not do what is proposed here!

> In
> general when applications support loading multiple config files, the
> configs are typically put in a `.d` directory, such as
> `/etc/haproxy/conf.d`.

Yes and people are used to be careful about "conf.d" directories.

Thanks,
Willy

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