On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 01:52 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
[...]
> We already have different UIs. But perhaps we have too much UI down in
> the Kconfig files. I.e., perhaps Kconfig shouldn't know the difference
IOMHO not really.
> between depends-on and select. Let the different UIs present the
The UI should know the difference as it should guide/force the user -
especially the less experienced ones which aren't expected to know every
bit of hardware and kernel-internal stuff (as in "do I need gzip
compression?").
And there are two (IMHO very) different semantics:
- select: enables/activates/includes necessary other parts (like the
"gzip compression" example from above and other library-like).
- depends on: to purposely disable knobs because it makes no sense to
configure e.g. ext-specific stuff if I don't have/want ext or because
the physical hardware is not present/available (find more and better
in Al Viros mail of course).
> dependency graph to the operator in different ways, suitable to different
> tasks.
That would be quite cute.
> /handwave off.
AOL.
Bernd
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