Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Josh points out, the question remains whether this should be our > behavior; I vote yes, as command-line arguments should always override > rc files, in general. Of course, these values could well have come from > .wgetrc and not the command-line; but even so, > more-specific-to-our-application should override general, so .wgetrc > still wins over .netrc.
I think .netrc was considered more specific because it can provide passwords on a per-machine basis, which .wgetrc can't.
