From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:08:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:08:30 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:57606 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:08:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 04:09:03 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Message-ID: <20010503040903.A28363@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Jeff Garzik , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010503034755.A27693@thyrsus.com> <3AF110CB.6074C036@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF110CB.6074C036@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:03:23AM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik : > "Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > OK, so you want CML2's "make oldconfig" to do something more graceful than > > simply say "Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it!" > [...] > > Have I got the point across yet? There are *no* good solutions > > to this problem. There aren't even any clean ways to separate > > easy cases from hard ones. > > No good solutions? Then how come I use "make oldconfig" every day... You fix broken configs by hand. That's what you'll do in the new system, too. > IMHO "make oldconfig" must stay. There was never any risk it would go away. -- Eric S. Raymond Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.