Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Preposal: ethereal.conf

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 15:32:52 -0500
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 12:54:47PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:31:20PM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> > > I might suggest either that
> > > 
> > > 	1) there be both a "${libdir}/ethereal/ethereal.conf" file *and*
> > > 	   a "~/.ethereal/ethereal.conf" file, with settings in the
> > > 	   latter overriding settings in the former
> > 
> > I like this one.
> 
> ...but why should there then be both "~/.ethereal/ethereal.conf" *and*
> "~/.ethereal/preferences"?  Why not just put the settings in the
> "preferences" file, as per my second suggestion?

You suggested two files.  I didn't like that.  There should be one configuration
file, not two.  And, I liked the idea of a ~/.SOMETHING file overriding
the ${data_dir}/SOMETHING file.