Re: Configuration language issues (was Re: drivers/net/Config.in cleanup)

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 02:17:15 EST


Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:

> The front end can show all the options (like xconfig) and have an
> additional feature to show the dependencies for the unavailable options:
> when the user clicks on the option, the front end pops up a window
> showing the if-conditions and dep-options for that option.
>
> The front end can also have a toggle to suppress the unavailable
> options options (like menuconfig always does). I personally advocate
> that this be the default.

This is getting to be a complicated user interface.

Why not just force options as needed? If somebody selects a PCMCIA
network card, then network support and PCMCIA support get enabled.
(the user could be told that this is happening)

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