Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:16 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] |
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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>
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