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Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:32:34 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:28:54PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04-05-08 09:10, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >Today we have two ways to express/solve dependencies. > > > >Top-down we have "depends on" > >and bottom up we have "select". > > > >The "depends on" dependencies at the same > >time impact the visibility of a symbol. > >A symbol with "depends on" not satisfied are not > >visible and thus not shown in menuconfig. > > I've always really disliked the visibility thing. I believe it's not really > the core issue here but regardless of anything else, could we not "grey > out" non-selectable options with its helpt text still available? That's > much more the standard UI paradigm. Works in xconfig - but last I tried I failed to enable it in menuconfig. It should be doable I just failed to see how. And as my linux time-share for this month is already almost consumed I will not find time to look at it :-( Sam -- 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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