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, 31 May 2001 19:09:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:08:58 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:7179 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:08:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:10:55 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Jim Freeman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Remaining undocumented Configure.help symbols Message-ID: <20010531191055.A13056@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Jim Freeman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010529145940.A11498@thyrsus.com> <20010530185542.R14293@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva> <20010530182012.D1305@thyrsus.com> <20010531144328.A16811@sovereign.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010531144328.A16811@sovereign.org>; from jfree@sovereign.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:43:28PM -0600 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 Jim Freeman : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond 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