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The {{Code|service-confile}} is optional and makes sense only if the configured service has several of them, e.g., Bind, or, if singular configuration file was split on Mace level into several parts to make it easy to configure, e.g., per IPTables table {{Code|service-confile}}s. The {{Code|configuration-file}} is a configuration file in a particular service configuration's syntax. All {{Code|configuration-file}} files will be merged by mace to the singular {{Code|service-confile}} file and placed in the appropriate distribution-specific directory.
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The {{Code|service-confile}} is optional and makes sense only if the configured service has several of them, e.g., Bind, or, if a singular configuration file was split at the Mace level into several parts to make it easy to configure, e.g., per IPTables table {{Code|service-confile}}s. The {{Code|configuration-file}} is a configuration file in a particular service configuration's syntax. All {{Code|configuration-file}} files will be merged by mace to the singular {{Code|service-confile}} file and placed in the appropriate distribution-specific directory.
    
The purpose in having {{Code|arbitrary-path}} is that there might be several directories with the same {{Code|service-name}}s to make the configuration more flexible, i.e., it allows having several high-level configuration components in a project that configure the same service. Subsequent configuration might:
 
The purpose in having {{Code|arbitrary-path}} is that there might be several directories with the same {{Code|service-name}}s to make the configuration more flexible, i.e., it allows having several high-level configuration components in a project that configure the same service. Subsequent configuration might: