From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 20:23:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA09703 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:23:27 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA09697 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:23:23 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA22463; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:27:33 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508210357.NAA22463@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:27:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199508210315.VAA01937@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Aug 20, 95 09:15:21 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 972 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > Personally, I really like the current config files. Maybe I'm weird, > but they are useful, and a lot more "portable" from machine to machine > than the way Linux, say, generates kernels (or did in the 1.1.x > timeframe). Likewise, I don't have any problems with the current configfile approach, and that's not the issue here. We're talking (or at least trying to talk) about an interactive tool for generating these files, and the sort of backing database that this hypothetical tool might require. > Just my two cents. Appreciated. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[