From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10658 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 05:28:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30814 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 05:28:34 -0000 From: Kevyn Shortell To: James Harlow Cc: Kumba , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041357.52026.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031004161307.GA2251@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200310050828.34578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HfK+LgSFUtqN3GQyV6rw" Message-Id: <1065331711.1642.48.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:28:31 -0700 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 66afb4f2-830c-482d-bb44-7d02ce15da4c X-Archives-Hash: 813eb26153cfde523b48f52d84729e87 --=-HfK+LgSFUtqN3GQyV6rw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:25, James Harlow wrote: > Well, this isn't true, it wouldn't take more than a couple hundred. Of > course, this would be pretty difficult to sift through by hand, and they > can depend on each other in interesting ways, so someone would probably > need to write some sort of tool to set them and feed this back to the > kernel - maybe more than one tool - one ncurses-based, one pure text, > one qt, or maybe something wacky like tcltk. We could call these tools > something like "menuflagconfig", "xflagconfig", "flagconfig", or=20 > something similar. Actually, I'm surprised no-one has already done=20 > anything like this. And this couple of hundred use flags, a user is supposed to know those all how? Suddenly, I see your proposal being more of a pain in the butt than the "problem". So what your suggesting is to take something most people can figure out in a day or two, by reading the help, or a web page and making it more complex? Why on earth do you think this is a better solution? The reason why no one has done this before is, you don't fix something that isn't broken. Linux kernel compiles were never intented for new users. Gentoo has changed that, and has a basic tool to help users out, but Gentoo doesn't claim to be a distro for new users to linux. Trance --=-HfK+LgSFUtqN3GQyV6rw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/f6v+Ev5Qt5rjz1YRArQGAJ9YVfKN4s6eOsiKkMQZ/a4KRSA+4ACfbUd5 NTe6EVAzivNjnewathp0USA= =wGF6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HfK+LgSFUtqN3GQyV6rw--