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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:15:45 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:57:38PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> >                                     Maybe keep them both in the
> > tree until this issue is worked out ? That way those who want to
> > play with kbuild can do so, and those who build a few dozen
> > kernels a day don't have to twiddle thumbs.
> 
> That is such an unutterably horrible concept that the very tentacles
> of Cthulhu himself must twitch in dread at the thought.  The last thing
> anyone sane wants to do is have to maintain two parallel build systems
> at the same time.

Then it does seem reasonable to ask that the new one is at least as fast
as the old one.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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