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 04:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:51:42 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:1031 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:51:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 04:52:22 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Greg Banks Cc: CML2 Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Message-ID: <20010503045222.A28728@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Greg Banks , CML2 In-Reply-To: <20010503034755.A27693@thyrsus.com> <3AF11A0D.FB206A2B@alphalink.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF11A0D.FB206A2B@alphalink.com.au>; from gnb@alphalink.com.au on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:42:53PM +1000 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 Greg Banks : > There is a natural order for presenting variables to the > user, and that's the menu tree order. At least in the Linux > kernel CML2 corpus the menus are roughly organised from most > general to most specific options, so options appearing earlier > in the tree are likely to appear in more constraints and you > probably want to ask the user to mutate them later. OK. Agreed, but it doesn't solve the general problem. Generating models is still hard. -- Eric S. Raymond To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form. -- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988