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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
>  Increased functionality I don't have a problem with, as long
>  as other more important things are addressed.  And for that matter,
>  Linus has said to Eric "I don't care, take this out of the
>  kernel completely leaving just oldconfig'. 
> 
>  It might just be the sanest choice, and leave all this discussion
>  in userland.

CML2 can live in userland.  It already does; three other projects use it.
The kernel rulebase cannot.  The real issue here is whether the CML1 
language carries sufficient information to support things like 
side-effect deduction.  And the answer is "no".
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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