From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (snark.tuxedo.org [207.106.50.26]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAC4482A for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:51:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:50:05 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Tom Rini , Alan Cox , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Matthew Wilcox , james rich , lkml , parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Message-ID: <20010420125005.B8086@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <20010420085148.V13403@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from nico@cam.org on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:35:12PM -0400 List-ID: Nicolas Pitre : > Why not having everybody's tree consistent with themselves and have whatever > CONFIGURE_* symbols and help text be merged along with the very code it > refers to? It's worthless to have config symbols be merged into Linus' or > Alan's tree if the code isn't there (yet). It simply makes no sense. And now it has a cost, too. It makes finding real bugs more difficult. -- Eric S. Raymond Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. -- H.L. Mencken