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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: linux kernel conf 0.8
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

| On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:28:44PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| >
| > The kernel would still have the text-mode configurator.
| The way I read the original post by Christoph Hellwig - nope.
| If the kernel config library is outside the kernel then the
| text-mode versions will fail as well.
| Recall that the text-mode version are no longer shell scripts,
| but based on a nice YACC grammar and coded in C.

OK, I missed that.  Sorry.
In that case I might fall into the "ridiculous" camp.  :)

| I do not want to go somewhere for special tools just to configure
| the kernel.
| Basic stuff such as make and gcc is ok to locate elsewhere - in
| specific versions as well. But not some basic kernel only configurator.

-- 
~Randy
  "In general, avoiding problems is better than solving them."
  -- from "#ifdef Considered Harmful", Spencer & Collyer, USENIX 1992.

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