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Configuration directories consist of files, each of which contains
a list of directives without any enclosing
(:output-translations ...) form.
The files will be sorted by namestring as if by string< and
the lists of directives of these files with be concatenated in order.
An implicit :inherit-configuration will be included
at the end of the list.
System-wide or per-user Common Lisp software distributions
such as Debian packages or some future version of clbuild
may then include files such as
/etc/common-lisp/asdf-output-translations.conf.d/10-foo.conf or
~/.config/common-lisp/asdf-output-translations.conf.d/10-foo.conf
to easily and modularly register configuration information
about software being distributed.
The convention is that, for sorting purposes, the names of files in such a directory begin with two digits that determine the order in which these entries will be read. Also, the type of these files must be .conf, which not only simplifies the implementation by allowing for more portable techniques in finding those files, but also makes it trivial to disable a file, by renaming it to a different file type.
Directories may be included by specifying a directory pathname
or namestring in an :include directive, e.g.:
(:include "/foo/bar/")