Meltano

I'm trying to set up multiple pipelines where a bunch of extractors point to the same loader, but I want to have different configs for the loaders. I see <https://meltano.com/docs/integration.html#plugin-configuration|pipeline-specific-configuration> in the docs, and I see that you can define your environment variables within the `meltano.yml` file, but I don't want to actually store the values there and would rather have them within the `.env` file.

<@U06CQMUDR09> You can't currently have multiple different values for the same plugin+setting combination in `.env` , unfortunately.

This is something that configuration profiles would make possible (<https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2294>), but I don't expect to get to that for at least another month.

Your best bet right now would be to add the same loader to your project as a custom plugin multiple times, which a different `name` each time, so that you get unique setting env vars. Would that work?

Does it install the code multiple times then?

Which is what makes it a workaround, not a full solution :slightly_smiling_face:

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