Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:40:15 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Configuration language issues (was Re: drivers/net/Config.in cleanup) |
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>And in practice, users report a lot of "I want to turn on Feature Y but >I can't figure out which Feature X enables it".
This one could be solved by letting menuconfig show all selections, not merely the available one. (As an optional mode of operation) The "unavailable" choices could be grayed out, and using "help" could show what else you need to turn on. Or maybe the stuff you need to turn on should be right there on the display, or even automatic: Turn on a disabled feature and everything necessary get turned on too.
One would really need two types of "if" for this to be sane. There is no need to show the DMA settings for each and every un-selected soundcard, for example. But it could be a nice way to get at settings that are disabled by a choice in a *different* branch of the tree.
Helge Hafting
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