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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:42, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> Why should make oldconfig default to y? I've found that in most cases
> it's broken and it only provides you with a command line interface,
> which is fine, but i like menuconfig.
>
> Jeremy
>

make config and oldconfig are the text interfaces.
the reason for running oldconfig is to see what changes have been introduced 
since your .config was written.
make menuconfig actually does the same thing (provides default answers to new 
options) but you have no way of knowing what it added, what it answered or 
even what has changed.
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