On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:31 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Even better tool would allow selecting the needed optios right there, > without the need of moving away from teh current option.
That's exactly what the Nemesis version of xconfig did, almost 15 years ago. > And yet better tool would not even ask user and enable them on its > own. Hey, but we have it! It's called "select". The tools could do that with 'depends on' too. Why make a distinction? > Seriously, select is dangerous. I wonder if a rule like "One can only > select a symbol whose dependencies are all satisfied by the current > symbol and/or its parents and the symbols they select or depend on" > would not make select safe enough. "One can only select a symbol which isn't otherwise presented to the user as a choice". So things like CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON are fine to be selected, because the user would never see it anyway. Otherwise, just use depends. And if that's a problem for you, fix the damn tools. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
