Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:57:33 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: CML2 1.0.0 release announcement |
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > * All three interfaces do progressive disclosure -- the user only sees > > questions he/she needs to answer (no more hundreds of greyed-out menu > > entries for irrelevant drivers!). > > Well, that sucks. The greyed-out menu entries were the only good > thing about xconfig. Such entries provide a clue that you need > to enable something else to get the feature you desire. Otherwise > you might figure that the feature is missing, or that you have > overlooked it.
I agree. I use menuconfig and it's pretty good, but sometimes I miss the ability to go through all the available options and decide, one by one, whether I want to enable the option.
Of course if I do not enable some PCI NIC driver, I do not need to see special options for that driver. That's good. On the other hand, if I am looking to enable RED, I won't realise that I need to enable traffic shaping first to discover the RED option.
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