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by Tomte 908 days ago
There are many packages that are web services. What are the install scripts to do?

If you've got a monolithic configuration file you need to parse it and be really sure that you handle all edge cases, including arbitrary manual changes by the admin.

If you split it into small per-site config snippets that don't claim to support every possible Apache configuration setting, you can simply paste them in the right place together.