Re: [PATCH] [RFC] kconfig: menuconfig make "Selected by:" readable

Paul Bolle
2015-01-22T10:47:36Z

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 11:33 +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2015-01-22 09:35, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > In this case 64BIT is set to 'y' (otherwise LBDAF would have been 'y').
> > This isn't a bug issue, of course, but I still can see how this can be
> > confusing. Perhaps the last line should read:
> > Unmet dependency on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y]
> >
> > Would that help? Or would
> > Depends on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=n]
> >
> > (ie, print the value if "!64BIT") be clearer?
>
> How about
>
> Depends on: (BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y]) [=n]
>
> ?

Or
Depends on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y] => [=n]

Whatever, we'll figure out something.

This is a curses UI, isn't it? Could we use color to distinguish the
symbols or sub-expressions that are set correctly, for that particular
dependency, from those that are not?

Paul Bolle