Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue

Rene Herman
2008-05-04T19:28:08Z

On 04-05-08 09:10, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> Today we have two ways to express/solve dependencies.
>
> Top-down we have "depends on"
> and bottom up we have "select".
>
> The "depends on" dependencies at the same
> time impact the visibility of a symbol.
> A symbol with "depends on" not satisfied are not
> visible and thus not shown in menuconfig.

I've always really disliked the visibility thing. I believe it's not really
the core issue here but regardless of anything else, could we not "grey out"
non-selectable options with its helpt text still available? That's much more
the standard UI paradigm.

Rene.