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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:00:46 +0200
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Building only a specified list of kernel modules
Message-ID:  <20010325120046.F777@nebula.cybercable.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20010325101657.A36335@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:16:57AM %2B0300
References:  <20010324211140.C4304@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010324205005.D777@nebula.cybercable.fr> <20010325101657.A36335@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Yeah, blame it all on newfangled means of communication :P
> 
> With all due respect, I think my patch would work better in the case
> when one wants to disable all modules except for a select few; yours
> would include a whole lot of NO_KMOD_*, which, given the sheer number
> of buildable modules (which is a good thing), would sum up to more than
> half of /etc/make.conf ;)
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter

My point is that more often we want to disable some modules and not
specify a list of modules which would be scary for beginners and would
lead to errors.

Maxime
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