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Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

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 .. _GNU Guix System: https://guix.gnu.org/
 .. _NixOS: https://nixos.org/
 
+About the name
+--------------
+
+``CONS`` is a fundamental operator in Lisp.  Consfigurator is so named because
+we hope to enable configuration management workflows which take advantage of
+some of the unique properties of the activity of programming in Lisp.
+
+For example, using Lisp's interactivity, it's easy to test a new property
+you're working on without having to plumb it into your main deployments, which
+might be large and relatively slow to run.  Hit C-c C-c on your ``DEFPROP``
+form in Emacs, switch to the repl, and then use ``DEPLOY-THESE`` to run just
+that property against localhost or a local container, until it does what it
+should.  For this purpose you can use whatever connection type is most
+convenient -- perhaps you normally deploy using Consfigurator's support for
+starting up remote Lisp images, but you can swap in a simple, lighter-weight
+connection type for testing.
+
+We also have a few nice macros defined, though nothing too clever yet.
+
 Quick start / introduction
 ==========================