Make the remote features optional
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### Remote Key/Value Store Support
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+To enable remote support in Viper, do a blank import of the `viper/remote` package:
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+`import _ github.com/spf13/viper/remote`
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Viper will read a config string (as JSON, TOML, or YAML) retrieved from a
path in a Key/Value store such as Etcd or Consul. These values take precedence
over default values, but are overriden by configuration values retrieved from disk,
