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# Eschewed Features

## Removal Directives
## Removal directives

Kustomize supports configurations that can be reasoned about as
`kustomize` supports configurations that can be reasoned about as
_compositions_ or _mixins_ - concepts that are widely accepted as
a best practice in various programming languages.

To this end, Kustomize offers various _addition_ directives. One
To this end, `kustomize` offers various _addition_ directives. One
can add labels, annotations, patches, resources and bases.
Corresponding _removal_ directives are not offered.

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kustomize on your fork. As often as desired, use _git rebase_ to
capture improvements from the upstream base.

## Environment Variable Substitution
## Build-time side effects from CLI args or env variables

Kustomize wants to support the best practice of storing one's
`kustomize` supports the best practice of storing one's
entire configuration in a version control system.

Consulting the environment at `kustomize build` time would
violate that goal.
Changing `kustomize build` configuration output as a result
of additional arguments or flags to `build`, or by
consulting shell environment variable values in `build`
code, would violate that goal.

Kustomize will instead provide kustomization file editting
commands that can accept environment variable arguments, expand
them at _edit time_, and store the result in the kustomization
file.
`kustomize` insteads offers [kustomization] file `edit`
commands. Like any shell command, they can accept
environment variable arguments.

If one wants to, say, set the tag used on an image to match an
environment variable, the best practice would be to make
the command
For example, to set the tag used on an image to match an
environment variable, run

```
kustomize edit set imagetag nginx:$MY_NGINX_VERSION
```

part of some encapsulating work flow executed before `kustomize
build`.
as part of some encapsulating work flow executed before
`kustomize build`.


## Globs in Kustomization Files
## Globs in kustomization files

Kustomize wants to support the best practice of storing one's
`kustomize` supports the best practice of storing one's
entire configuration in a version control system.

Globbing the local file system for files not explicitly
declared in the kustomization file at `kustomize build` time
declared in the [kustomization] file at `kustomize build` time
would violate that goal.

Allowing globbing in a kustomization file would also introduce
the same problems as allowing globbing in [java import]
declarations or BUILD/Makefile dependency rules.

Kustomize will instead provide kustomization file editting
`kustomize` will instead provide kustomization file editting
commands that accept globbed arguments, expand them at _edit
time_ relative to the local file system, and store the resulting
explicit names into the kustomization file.
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