Yep, I think erh got just about everything, except the conflict warning
stuff.  (I think we can probably live without that, but it would still
be nice to have (TM).)  And a damned fine job of pulling the discussion 
together into a coherent whole - Thank You!

The "sense" of conf_dir_preferred still bothers me - I think we need to
make sure that its behaviour is very clearly documented (at the point
of use) to prevent any confusion.

Heck - if this gets implemented, I might actually go and update my /etc
directory (something I try not to do very frequently).  :)

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