Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 18:09:09 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:04:34PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > > > I don't want to do (a); it conflicts with my design objective of > > > simplifying configuration enough that Aunt Tillie can do it. I won't > > > do that unless I see a strong consensus that it's the only Right Thing. > > > > Its a good way of getting the defaults right. It may also be an appropriate > > way of guiding presentation (eg putting the stuff the ruleset says you wont > > have under a subcategory so you would see > > > > > > CPU type > > Devices > > blah > > blah > > Other Options > > IDE disk > > Cardbus > > I want to understand what you're driving at here and I don't get it. What's > the referent of "Its"? Are you saying you think Aunt Tillie's view of the > world should guide the presentation of options?
Aunt Tillie shouldn't try to manually configure a kernel.
Christoph
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