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From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:01:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461D84EB.7040207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704110509200.11343@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   (in short, if i, the builder, explicitly choose *not* to add a
> certain feature to my build, i think i have every right to expect that
> some other part of my configuration isn't quietly going to put some
> sub-choice of that feature back in behind my back.)

I agree with this.  However, if another feature actually depends on another 
explicitly unselected feature, there should at least be a warning prompt 
that such is the case.

It probably would be hard though to track all dependencies.

Best Regards,

Carlo


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-12  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-11  7:58 "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-11  9:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11  9:25   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-11  9:35     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11  9:47       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-11 15:43         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 16:00           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-12  1:01     ` Carlo Florendo [this message]
2007-04-12  7:24       ` DervishD
2007-04-12 15:21       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-12 18:54         ` Stefan Richter

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