From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7171 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 00:41:52 -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 10941 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 00:41:52 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Sat, 4 Oct 03 20:41:52 -0400 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:38:21 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031005002509.GE78513@james.is.never.wrong.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310050938.22128.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: f836186c-a77c-4a3a-9fc0-9f321583cf58 X-Archives-Hash: 7793c845e9cd48b7d8d5dd107d17ed9e On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:25, 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. Sarcasm never helps anything in serious discussion... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list