Re: [netmod] 'status' statement needed on every node

[heasley <[e-mail]>]

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:44:29AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > Blind cut-and-paste is not a good design goal.
> 
> Definitions that stand on their own since they are not context
> sensitive is IMHO a plus. If I am n pages down a YANG tree and I want
> to know whether I look at config false or config true leaves,
> searching backwards is really painful if you read on paper (oh, how

Isn't this something that is fixed with display (human representation)
tools?

> > I still don't know what it means to define hierarchical data and say the
> > parent is deprecated but not the descendant nodes.
> 
> It is odd but can happen anyway. A current augmentation of something
> that got deprecated likely stays current. I would hope that tools warn
> if they see this but that's it.

How is anything ever expunged if parsing tools do not refuse to load
a module that depends on a deprecated node that it is attempting to
augment?