# controlling what's loaded **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** development\ **Created:** [July 19, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/controlling-whats-loaded/1926 "2011-07-19T17:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vern](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/vern/32/630_2.png) [@Vern](https://community.zeek.org/u/Vern)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/controlling-whats-loaded/1926/1 "2011-07-19T17:51:48Z")
When I run Bro 2.0 with just the script "protocols/dns", it pulls in (among other things) frameworks/packet-filter/netstats.bro , which strikes me as definitely something optional rather than necessary. If I wanted to suppress that behavior, how would I do it?     Vern ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/controlling-whats-loaded/1926/2 "2011-07-19T19:28:33Z")
That's a good point, I think you've identified a place where we don't want a script to be loaded by default. We're including a local.bro script with Bro now too that's intended to be edited locally after installation as a "recommended" load set so we can do recommended loads there and not make them load by default anymore. I'll change that now and keep the list of odd-to-load-by-default scripts coming. 🙂 My comment to Robin yesterday was that you can think of the new site/local.bro script like the old brolite script except that it's meant to be edited now.   .Seth ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/controlling-whats-loaded/1926/3 "2022-05-06T15:39:39Z")