pages  Deprecated pages for Subroles   How subroles work Phase-Deploy Updated Feb 4, 2010 by sund...@gmail.com Introduction Subroles in slack are an example of the inheritance design pattern, applied to a tree of files. Synopsis .../roles/myrole/files/etc/daemon.conf .../roles/myrole/files/etc/otherdaemon.conf .../roles/myrole/files.foo/etc/daemon.conf .../roles/myrole/files.foo.bar/etc/daemon.conf .../roles/myrole/files.quux/etc/daemon.conf Slack will install a different /etc/daemon.conf when called for myrole ,