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

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On 2015-01-22 11:47, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 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?

That might be a bit tricky, since there are multiple UIs and we use the
same functions to build the displayed strings.

Michal
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