Yes. Exactly. Which is why the program should tell you which one takes precedence. The program already knows what config files it's loading and in what order,

Yes. Exactly. Which is why the program should tell you which one takes precedence. The program already knows what config files it's loading and in what order, so why is it left up to the human to do all that work again? There should be a flag like --manifest or something that would spit out what actually got loaded from where.