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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
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Alan Cox wrote:

>>Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
>>
>>>Since the information is there in CML1 to generate the list of constraints
>>>for any given option,
>>>
>>False assumption...
>>
>
>Do you have anything more constructive that "doesnt" to say
>
>>If you want to refute me, build it yourself.  You'll get a valuable learning
>>experience.  At the end of it, I'll have earned your apology.  Not that I
>>expect to get it.
>>
>
>Been there, done that, got the pretty graphs. Possibly the next step is to
>redo the work into mconfig which already does pretty much anything we need
>with the existing config files parsed using a real 100% genuine yacc grammar
>
I second this. mconfig is a fine lean and sane design, which isn't 
trying to solve the "world hunger" problem.




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