Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:10:32 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: cfaehl@cs.unm.edu (Chris Faehl) Cc: ksmm@cybercom.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Message-ID: <199712102010.MAA19248@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <m0xfrlj-000386C@enterprise.cs.unm.edu> from Chris Faehl at "Dec 10, 97 12:24:48 pm"
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Chris Faehl writes: > > <RANT> > > > > Why is it that every time somebody suggests making a script or GUI utility > > to automate some boring but necessary UNIX process, all you guys who went > > to school with Dennis Richie pop out and start complaining about how the > > GUI is the greatest affront to computer science since the invention of the > > transistor? > > What I see being suggested isn't anything that will help automate > kernel config, but rather to simply replace sections with a pointy-clicky > interface. That's hardly automation. > > Anyway, the biggest reason I can come up with AGAINST GUIs for kernel > configuration is the obscuration of the original, has-to-exist kernel > config file. That is, the config file still has to exist, so why not > just muck about with it directly? So what's wrong with a GUI program that spits out kernel config files? That's kindof what I envisioned. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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