Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 16:42:47 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Simplifying the configuration interface so that "anyone" can use it seems like > a waste of effort. If there's an interested novice out there who wants to > learn how to configure a kernel, they'll be sufficiently interested to invest > an hour or two in learning how the whole process works. Make it as simple as > it needs to be, and no simpler.
Having a simple interface is good. Being guided by probable correct choices helps many people, but it needs to support a simple interface as well as a real one if the two conflict in design goals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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