Re: bogous binfmt_misc patch in 2.2.0-pre1

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:09:47 -0500

According to Alan Cox:
> Michael Chastain and others have been talking about this - there is a possible
> 'solution' for 2.3.x - which is to add a
>
> requires CONFIG_something CONFIG_somethingelse
>
> at the end of the scripts.

That may not be enough. You should consider allowing full boolean
expressions, and/or allowing pseudo-config variables that are implied
by others. I'm thinking of Debian's packag dependencies as a model.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."


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