- All of scripts/base/ is loaded by main.cc
- Can be disabled by setting $BRO_NO_BASE_SCRIPTS
- Scripts in scripts/base/ don't use relative path loading to ease use of BRO_NO_BASE_SCRIPTS (to copy and paste that script).
I really, really, *really* think this should be a command line option! After all, that's what command line options are there for: to enable/disable/modify features of the executed process.
Environment variables are a pain when used to set options. They are nice/good to set paths, etc.
It's easy to think an env. variable is set (or not set) when in fact it's the other way round. Similarly, it's hard if a user has an issue: It's now not enough to ask for a the command line, one also needs the environment.
If one really wants to set this up through the environment, one can use a wrapper script or an alias.
For the same reason I also think that FAKE_DNS should be a command line option (in particular because two other DNS modes are settable via the command line). Maybe make a single DNS command line option that takes a parameter. We can still honor the environment variable or issue a warning/error so that user's aren't surprised.
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Gregor