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 Third party elements
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-Pending implementation. The idea is to have a search path for elements.
+Additional elements can be incorporated by setting ELEMENTS_PATH, for example
+if one were building tripleo-images, the variable would be set like::
+
+        export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements
+        disk-image-create rhel7 cinder-api
 
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