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I would prefer to show the weak binding explicitly and seperatly rather
then by just enabling it with a different foreground color.
I do use some machines to compile kernels that don't have color capability
(serial console or monocrome video)
It would also be nice to see that "I forced this on, but it is not
required by anything else" that you can see if the weak bining is shown
seperatly.
David Lang
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>:
> > > I am not familiar in how this works, but it would be cool if those
> > > requirements were marked as "weak" and un-marked if the option relying
> > > on them is.
> > >
> > > i.e.
> > > I have driver "foo" requiring "bar". If I mark foo, I want bar to be marked.
> > > But if then I change my mind and unmark foo, I wish for bar to be unmarked
> > > (unless explicitly re-marked). But if I select first bar and then foo, then
> > > bar is not to be de-selected when foo is.
> >
> > Also: if there is a driver baz that also requires bar we would want bar included
> > if EITHER foo or baz were selected, but bar should not be included only
> > if BOTH foo and baz are deslected... Choosing foo should mark bar; Choosing
> > baz should also mark bar; But if foo is deselected, then bar should not be
> > unmarked since baz is still selected...
>
> I've actually been thinking about something similar, but before this morning
> I didn't have a semantics for it that I liked. How about this?
>
> * Implement a stack of "weak" bindings for each symbol, each associated
> with the symbol that forced it. A user setting overrides all weak bindings,
> otherwise more recent ones have priority over older ones. Whenever a symbol
> changes value all the weak bindings it forces go away (then it may make new
> ones). Indicate weak bindings with a distinguished foreground color.
> --
> <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
> oppression: for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that
> will reach unto himself.
> -- Thomas Paine
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