Re: CML2 1.0.0 release announcement

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:33:07 +0100 (BST)


> A multiple-apex tree also tends to pull the configuration questions downwards
> from policy (e.g "Parallel-port support?") towards hardware-specific,
> platform-specific questions ("Atari parallel-port hardware?") By designing
> the configuration rules for CML2 as a single-apex tree, I'm trying to
> move the questions upwards and have derivations in the rules file handle
> distributing that information to a lower level.

Ok I see where you are going with that argument. However when you parse all
the existing Config.in files into a tree you can see those properties by
looking from any node back to its dependancies

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