From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:18:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/80 v1] package/collectd: use 'menuconfig' instead of 'config'+'menu' In-Reply-To: <20160118230510.50308fc5@free-electrons.com> References: <015a3c362744fb1f25235088a353f3d3689fd62f.1452983019.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20160118225659.16e260ac@free-electrons.com> <20160118220015.GC3380@free.fr> <20160118230510.50308fc5@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160118221808.GE3380@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2016-01-18 23:05 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:00:15 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > I am very much and totally undecided on this either... > > > > On one hand, sub-menus in sub-menus can be a bit tedious to navigate in, > > hence the change to use comments a separators. > > > > On the other hand, the new layout is definitely quite long, indeed, and > > difficult to navigate as well. > > > > I'll revert to use sub-menus, unless Peter chimes in to voice his > > preference for the new layout. > > But do we need to change anything at all for this patch? > > While I agree that the alsa-lib and alsa-utils cases were silly, > because we had a single sub-options that did nothing but give access to > the sub-menu. > > But in the case of collectd, the current situation looks good to me, > and I don't see the need to introduce a sub-menu for it. Well, the idea is that all packages that have sub-options all use the same layout, so that the menuconfig really is more consistent than it is today. Now, tastes are very personal! ;-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'