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What is the view of having / not having global variables in Puppet? Facter variables are global in the sense they are defined in every scope (whereas ''normal'' variables are only available within the scope they are defined in). I could simply add a custom fact for my DoesTheServerNeedASerialConsole flag to Facter, but I''m not 100% sure I should be having the client decide this. It''s something to be declared centrally. I''d use a variable but it goes out of scope if I use inheritance. I want to define something per host (or per group of hosts) that is available to...