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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:50:20 +0200
From: Toon van der Pas <toon@vanvergehaald.nl>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] make localconfig
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 03:25:58PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Toon van der Pas wrote:
> > > localconfig(9)	    Generating local configuration	    localconfig(9)
> > 
> > Yow!  The return of Aunt Tillie compiling a kernel!   :-)
> 
> Oh, please. This was not my intention.

My apologies.  I really couldn't resist..

> If you think it's a _deadly_bad_idea_to_do_ please tell me. It is,
> after all, just an RFC, means I request you to comment on this.
> I could even ask for kernel protection for the mice.

A serious question about your proposal then:
The .config file doesn't excusively contain information regarding
what hardware to support.  It also carries a lot of information about
the functionality and the optimzations the user wishes to incorporate
in his kernel.  How would localconfig deal with that?

Regards,
Toon.

BTW: Considering that you are not out of your mind (most of the
time), I admire your courage in bringing up this subject.  ;-)
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