From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 06:52:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA18532 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 06:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA18523 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 06:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA15269; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:50:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:50:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: Jamie Bowden cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? In-Reply-To: <199712101323.IAA11947@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. :) > And more to the point, why would you want to? Linux's make config is an > abomination. all you really want is a tk-style interface to build config files. You don't want any of the other linux hideousness. I think that's what jordan meant. I use both systems for kernels and believe me i prefer the bsd style, even lacking the cute graphical interface. Much better than the linux style. ron