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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Erik Paulsen Sk=E5lerud wrote:

> This is a pretty frequent question that I see alot of on the lists and
> in different FreeBSD-channels on IRC.
>
> Perhaps someone should implent some kind of kernel-config checker that
> sees over the config and tells the user if something important is
> missing (like scsbus and da if you're going to use umass).
> I am sure that there are several other things it could check aswell.
>
> I'd love to make one myself, the only problem is that I don't know
> enough about shell-scripting to do this.

If you're planning on spending the effort on this, teaching config to
properly understand dependencies would win you more brownie-points.

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