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From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: "Next Generation" kernel configuration?
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On 21-Jul-2004 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
[snip] 
> Has this ever come up for discussion before?  Now that we have rcNG,
> with its explicit declarations of dependencies, has any thought been
> given to doing something similar with kernel configuration files? 
> Something still human-readable, yet more orderly and systematic,
> easier for a machine to interpret, present and verify?

Just a note of clarification here: the use of the term "kernel
configuration files" in the above paragraph refers to the entire set of
files residing under /sys/conf and friends, not the user's kernel
config.

Just wanted to make sure.  :-)

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"