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I don't even think this is about DRY and possibly misunderstands the DRY principle. DRY is about having a single authoritative source of information ("Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system"). Repeating a portion of a key in a configuration file is not in violation, it would be if it were the value being repeated.



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