> You don't want FreeBSD to have more users? Do you think it already has > enough users? How many users is enough? What is the goal of the FreeBSD > project? To be the test platform for new kernel ideas exclusively? Why > do you tolerate the presence of the X on the FreeBSD CD-ROMs then?
I think this point was somewhat ill-made and should be taken more as Mike being grumpy than as any statement of official policy. :) > Making the script is like making more documentation. Is the current > FreeBSD documentation so plentiful that making more documentation would > harm somebody? Go ahead and do it. Like I said, this gets talked about a lot but only a few people have ever tried to actually do it. I've seen a few shell scripts in the past, but all were somewhat simplistic and also abandoned quickly, which is not what you want. If you get users to start using a new kernel configuration mechanism, it MUST be maintained on a regular basis (as new options are added) or you'll just lull them into a false sense of security and insulate them from new features and options which exist in the "classic" config files but are not yet in the configuration front-end tool. As others have also said, the real goal is to have truly generic kernels and dispense with config(8) forever. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
