Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:50:05 -0400


Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> Why not having everybody's tree consistent with themselves and have whatever
> CONFIGURE_* symbols and help text be merged along with the very code it
> refers to? It's worthless to have config symbols be merged into Linus' or
> Alan's tree if the code isn't there (yet). It simply makes no sense.

And now it has a cost, too. It makes finding real bugs more difficult.

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