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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Remaining undocumented Configure.help symbols
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:10:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010531191055.A13056@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010529145940.A11498@thyrsus.com> <20010530185542.R14293@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva> <20010530182012.D1305@thyrsus.com> <20010531144328.A16811@sovereign.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010531144328.A16811@sovereign.org>; from jfree@sovereign.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:43:28PM -0600

Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.org>:
> The verbiage in these entries seems 'make config' / text-interaction
> -centric.  Granted, that's likely the context most kernel builders will
> use, but it would seem fair to at least consider a broader audience
> who may be using more gui-ish tools wrapped around extant content.

This is a general problem with almost all the existing entries, and
will have to await a future editing pass for solution.  For now I think
it's more important to have consistent cues that users can recognize,
even if they're not literally appropriate.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a
commodity.  Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of
art exist simultaneously in two "economies," a market economy and a gift
economy.  Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive
without the market, but where there is no gift there is no art.
	-- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-31 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-29 18:59 Remaining undocumented Configure.help symbols Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-30 21:55 ` Harald Welte
2001-05-30 22:20   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-30 22:50     ` Jim Treadway
2001-05-31 20:43     ` Jim Freeman
2001-05-31 23:10       ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-06-01 13:54         ` [kbuild-devel] " Jim Freeman

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