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    SubjectRe: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]
    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.
    --
    <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

    Rapists just *love* unarmed women. And the politicians who disarm them.
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