From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 06:04:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14480 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 06:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA14458 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 06:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199712101323.IAA11947@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:28:58 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? In-Reply-To: <19212.881727438@time.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On this topic. I don't care for Linux (Too Unreliable), but theyv'e had a > > curses based configuration tool as part of the sources since v 2.0. > > It is kind of nice since it lets you choose what hardware support you want > > to compile in and even some port variables etc. > > We know, and have for a long time, about Linux's curses and X based > kernel configurators. Who's going to do the work of implementing > something similar? *That's* been the big mystery up until now. :) > > Jordan > And more to the point, why would you want to? Linux's make config is an abomination. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)