linux-kernel - Re: Proposal for menuconfig removal

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Message-ID: <f8db164d-0937-4f90-90ce-4543d6a8549d@VA3EHSMHS031.ehs.local>
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:39:18 -0700
From:	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
To:	Aldo Iljazi <me@...o.io>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for menuconfig removal

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:56:33PM +0300, Aldo Iljazi wrote:
> Since nconfig is there, menuconfig is redundant.
> 
> I am proposing to remove it from the kernel.

Pleas don't. I never use nconfig (the color scheme always scared me
away) and only use menuconfig.
Also, this would break a lot of documentation out there in wikis and
a hell lot of other places that tell people to configure a kernel using
'make menuconfig'.

	Sören


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