Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 03 May 2001 04:03:23 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard |
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > OK, so you want CML2's "make oldconfig" to do something more graceful than > simply say "Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it!" [...] > Have I got the point across yet? There are *no* good solutions > to this problem. There aren't even any clean ways to separate > easy cases from hard ones.
No good solutions? Then how come I use "make oldconfig" every day...
Are we to assume from your long missive that you are turning the possible into the impossible? :)
IMHO "make oldconfig" must stay.
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