[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/target/linux

[Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>]

> >  Ulf> I am not happy with menuconfig
> >  Ulf> so either this or revert your
> >  Ulf> patch.
> >  Ulf> Your choice...
> > 
> > Bah, as I said back then xconfig is not a good default. It has
> > additional dependencies we don't provide/check for and as we already
> > use menuconfig interface for buildroot that's the only sane default.
> > 
> > The default values should work out of the box!
> > 
> > But as it's just a default, you can always change it locally if you
> > prefer xconfig.
> > 
> 
> I strongly recommend menuconfig. A lot of peoples I know work on virtual 
> machines that have just the bare minimal packages to do compilation. 
> There don't have X11 and will clearly not install a X11 server just for 
> a single configuration tool that have on other side a perfectly working 
> console interface. Other problem is that those virtual machines are 
> mainly used on Windows based system where the most used program to do a 
> SSH connection to it is PuTTY that don't support X11.

Please revert this patch. As Jean said, not everyone runs X11 or even
builds buildroot locally and has bandwidth to support running remote X
sessions.

Ulf, if you want to use xconfig, I suggest *you* change *your* local
copy. Don't put this requirement on everyone else.

-N
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