On 2012/11/26 17:40, Jason McIntyre wrote: > anyway...i still dislike the idea of just saying order matters. also, > could someone really expect the file to not be parsed top down
Yes, I think they might; people are used to config files being read and parsed before being applied, and because this file isn't a straight set of commands to pass to ifconfig(8) I think it's not unreasonable that someone should treat it as a config file.
