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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:01:31 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@...il.com> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (in short, if i, the builder, explicitly choose *not* to add a > certain feature to my build, i think i have every right to expect that > some other part of my configuration isn't quietly going to put some > sub-choice of that feature back in behind my back.) I agree with this. However, if another feature actually depends on another explicitly unselected feature, there should at least be a warning prompt that such is the case. It probably would be hard though to track all dependencies. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, Diliman 1101, Quezon City Philippines http://www.astra.ph -- The Astra Group of Companies 5-3-11 Sekido, Tama City Tokyo 206-0011, Japan http://www.astra.co.jp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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