[chef] Explicit "default" or "common" environment?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Chefs,

I'm in the situation where my environment .rb files get larger, but 80% of the attributes are the same across all files.

This is quite a bit of code duplication, so I was wondering wheter there is something like an explicit "environments/_default.rb" whose run_list and attributes would get automatically merged with all other environments?

Is this a bad idea?

Cheers,
Torben