[jboss-as7-dev] Recent profile changes

[Heiko Braun]

Agreed. As jason said, if we cannot come up with easy to understand rules
for overrides, we should not have them at all.

Which is what I said in the initial proposal:
Allow <include/>, but without the ability to re-declare subsystems within the inclusion hierarchy.

On Jul 5, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> An abstract profile only offers a benefit if we allowed a profile that 
> inherits another profile to override subsystems.
> 
> It's not a huge benefit though; probably not worth it. The junior admin 
> at 3AM could still easily go into profile A intending to only affect the 
> servers in group A and unknowingly update the group B servers as well. 
> The odds of his doing that might be slightly reduced, since there would 
> be no servers running profile A directly so he might be more inclined to 
> understand the implications of his change.