Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 04:50:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 04:50:45 -0400 Received: from frege-d-math-north-g-west.math.ethz.ch ([129.132.145.3]:53152 "EHLO frege.math.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 04:50:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3AD56C43.84D83889@math.ethz.ch> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:50:11 +0200 From: Giacomo Catenazzi Reply-To: cate@debian.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" CC: "Eric S. Raymond" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: CML2 1.0.0 release announcement In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > * All three interfaces do progressive disclosure -- the user only sees > > questions he/she needs to answer (no more hundreds of greyed-out menu > > entries for irrelevant drivers!). > > Well, that sucks. The greyed-out menu entries were the only good > thing about xconfig. You are one of the few people that use xconfig... Thus xconfig is not so worse as people tell me. > Such entries provide a clue that you need > to enable something else to get the feature you desire. Otherwise > you might figure that the feature is missing, or that you have > overlooked it. There is an option (check the menu) to show all entries (grayed) and now there is also in make menuconfig this option ('S' command) On my extensive test, now all the features of the older tools are included. But the important feature to read the old .config file, but this feature will be included in the next version (check the previous esr's mails) giacomo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/