From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3938 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 04:55:00 -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 6760 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 04:54:59 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:54:57 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: James Harlow Cc: Kumba , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031005045457.GA13413@cerberus.oppresses.us> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 6a180c0b-7407-4f1c-95fb-6f79240fcc27 X-Archives-Hash: 3fb13cab652adc649c4b5cca2df95fc3 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:25:09AM +0100, James Harlow wrote: > 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. > They have. It's called "make *config" -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list