Re: [PATCH] [RFC] kconfig: menuconfig make "Selected by:" readable

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On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 11:33 +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2015-01-22 09:35, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > In this case 64BIT is set to 'y' (otherwise LBDAF would have been 'y').
> > This isn't a bug issue, of course, but I still can see how this can be
> > confusing. Perhaps the last line should read:
> >       Unmet dependency on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y]
> > 
> > Would that help? Or would 
> >       Depends on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=n]
> > 
> > (ie, print the value if "!64BIT") be clearer?
> 
> How about
> 
>   Depends on: (BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y]) [=n]
> 
> ?

Or
   Depends on: BLOCK [=y] && !64BIT [=y] => [=n]

Whatever, we'll figure out something.

This is a curses UI, isn't it? Could we use color to distinguish the
symbols or sub-expressions that are set correctly, for that particular
dependency, from those that are not? 


Paul Bolle

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