If you could, in addition to the existing file+template specificity
functionality, make use of ‘family-<platform_family>’, would you
make use of it? Have you wished it existed?
That is, in order of precedence (highest precedence to lowest):
host-node[:fqdn]
node[:platform]-node[:platform_version]
node[:platform]-version_components
node[:platform]
family-node[:platform_family] <---- NEW
default
Or, explicitly:
host-web.example.com
redhat-6.4
redhat-6
redhat
family-rhel <---- NEW
default
Jeff