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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux?
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Em Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:22:12AM -0700, Matt Porter escreveu:

> The ideal situation is if as we work on all these areas where we can reduce
> size, we provide fine grained options to tweak them (with a default
> desktop/server value and a default "tiny" value).  You can have this
> CONFIG_TINY or whatever, but then we should also provide the ability to tweak
> the values exactly how we want in a specific application.  The tweaking
> options can be buried under advanced kernel options with the appropriate
> disclaimers about shooting yourself in the foot.
 
That is how I think it should be done, yes.

- Arnaldo
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