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  • From: "David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>
  • To: dmlb2000 AT excite.com, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-new call
  • Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 04:10:05 -0400 (EDT)


>>As was pointed out already ... what's wrong with:
>>yes '' | make oldconfig
>>
>
>What's to say that the option we just scripted out a yes to breaks the
>compile or
>the user doesn't want it... or maybe they have an incomplete config and
>saying yes
>to everything bloats the kernel to enormous size...
>
>I don't think doing this is fair to the user.
>

Ooopsie didn't read that quite right... the yes "" | would make oldconfig
accept
the defaults for any options that aren't present in the config file...

But I still don't like cutting the user out of creating the config file

- David Brown

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