Comment 7 for bug 1640635

We can tackle the other aspects of this on other tickets, but it does seem like we have a good understanding of what is happening here. I want to make sure we don't end up derailing slightly here from the "bug" as it were (though it's not so much a bug, it appears)

Just operating from the principle of least-surprise, if cloud-init tells you in a file "create this file like so, and it'll stop this one being generated", I would expect that to be the case.

On the other hand adding in the conditionals to the comment seems like maybe it would be overloading the comments in the file? I like to keep such comments about as short and sweet as possible.

Would it be more realistic to get the behaviour documented and just point to the documents (but then I guess what about versioning?)