From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 18:54:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA02167 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:54:17 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02157 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:54:08 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA28786; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:53:34 +0800 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:53:32 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Steve Passe cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? In-Reply-To: <199508150626.AAA26400@clem.systemsix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Steve Passe wrote: > > I have been kicking around ideas for use of the dotfile program i > mentioned earlier and came up with the idea of a backend for > generating a kernel config file. It would guide a user thru the > process of describing their machine and create an appropriate config > file. Assuming the user knew what was inside their box, they would > end up with a conflict free kernel! We talked about doing exactly this about a couple months ago on the list. The only problem with the Dotfile Generator is that it depends entirely in Tcl and Tk to sort through dependencies and to draw its pretty interface. I was hoping for something a little more generic, which could be parsed by a Tcl/Tk interface, or a Web/HTTP interface, or a libdialog interface or whatever. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org