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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
Date: 18 May 2001 21:12:34 +0200
In-Reply-To: Keith Owens's message of "Sat, 19 May 2001 01:09:41 +1000"
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> writes:

Keith> cc trimmed back to mailing lists only.  On Fri, 18 May 2001
Keith> 10:53:53 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
>> (a) Back off the capability approach.  That is, accept that people
>> doing configuration are going to explicitly and exhaustively
>> specify low-level hardware.

Keith> No, you loose one of the nicer features of CML2.

No, explicit selection *must* be available as an option.

Jes