Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard
Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Thu, 3 May 2001 04:09:03 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> > OK, so you want CML2's "make oldconfig" to do something more graceful than
> > simply say "Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it!"
> [...]
> > Have I got the point across yet? There are *no* good solutions
> > to this problem. There aren't even any clean ways to separate
> > easy cases from hard ones.
>
> No good solutions? Then how come I use "make oldconfig" every day...
You fix broken configs by hand. That's what you'll do in the new
system, too.
> IMHO "make oldconfig" must stay.
There was never any risk it would go away.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.
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