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+Introduction
+============
+
+Consfigurator is a system for declarative configuration management using
+Common Lisp.  You can use it to configure hosts as root, deploy services as
+unprivileged users and build disc images.
+
+Many or all of the good ideas here come straight from Joey Hess's Propellor_.
+I'm working on Consfigurator mainly because I think Propellor is great and
+reimplementing those ideas is good practice in writing Common Lisp, but also
+because after five years of using and extending Propellor, I've come to
+disagree with Joey about whether Haskell's type system helps or hinders using
+and extending Propellor.
+
+.. Propellor_ https://propellor.branchable.com/