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Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>:
> > * 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. 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.

You can have this back if you want by clicking the "Unsuppress" item in
one of the pulldowns.

But since the theorem prover automatically turns on such prerequisites for
you, you're very unlikely to need it.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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