saltstack/salt — pull request #4158 by zsimic (2013-03-20 02:47:30+00:00)
Title: Take into account default_include configuration when calling verify_env()

salt-minion insists on /etc/salt/minion.d existing, even if one specifies a different default_include path in configuration

I'm trying to run without using default /etc/salt and ran across this.