linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:21:59 +0100
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:34:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Mar 10 2007 22:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> >On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>> >> Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do
>> >> 'Save as Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg
>> >> if you want it changed :-)
>> >
>> >Current behaviour is not logical but on the other hand I do not
>> >see a big need to make it so.
>> >It seems that people very seldom uses "save alternate" anyway.
>> >
>> >But patches are welcome.
>> 
>> ^_^ The patch has already been posted, has not it?
> No.
> Either we keep current behaviour

, which is misleading,

> or we change to the "normal"
> behaviour with a "Save as..." as know from all other programs.

, which is not desirable, as long as there is no "open" and "save" option
also working as "normal".

IMO the option should have the "Save a copy" semantics, since that's what the
name suggests.
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