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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:47:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk)
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:30:09AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 00:06, J.A. Magall?n wrote:
> > > As I see it, the onle thing that should be included in a standard kernel
> > > would be something like a kconfig-xaw, that is sure to be on every box that
> > > has X, and could be a reference implementation.
> > 
> > Lots of people no longer include Xaw either nowdays 8)
> > 
> > Probably the easiest way to do this would be to move the GUI tools out
> > of the kernel (or maybe leave the common useful ones) and have make
> > guiconfig do
> > 
> > 	if [ -f /usr/sbin/kernel-gui-config ] ; then
> > 		/usr/sbin/kernel-gui-config
> > 	elif got_qt() ; then
> > 		qt config
> > 	elif got_gtk() ; then
> > 		gtk_config
> > 	else
> > 		warnign message
> > 		make config
> > 	fi
> 
> Why does the kernel have to know about that tools at all?  Just put them
> into $PATH and let people just call $FOOCONFIG.  This works pretty well
> with mconfig on 2.2/2.4..

Just call it kguiconfig. Since /usr/bin/kguiconfig would be a symbolic link to
/etc/alternatives/kguiconfig on a Debian system, the sysadmin can choose which
of the zillion different available GUI kernel config programs you'll actually
run.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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