Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03T16:04:33Z

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>:
> If you support broken configurations in any way, your program is just
> wildly guessing what they did mean. The exact (and very probably not in any
> way cleanly thought out) behaviour in corner cases then becomes "the way
> things work", and we end up in an unmaintainable mess yet again.

Yes, this is precisely what I fear.
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Eric S. Raymond

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