From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7634 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 00:25:41 -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 3815 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 00:25:40 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 01:25:09 +0100 From: James Harlow To: Kumba Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 51323394-e968-4a36-9b66-66086ea29483 X-Archives-Hash: 63ffc5ccb3383b78063fa7d02a528457 On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:17:11PM -0400, Kumba wrote: > x86 is *way* too diverse an architecture to configure solely through USE > Flags. 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 something similar. Actually, I'm surprised no-one has already done anything like this. -- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list