Re: Why don't we separate menuconfig from the kernel?

From: Krzysztof Halasa (khc_at_pm.waw.pl)
Date: 09/18/05

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    To: "Martin Fouts" <Martin.Fouts@palmsource.com>
Date:	18 Sep 2005 12:36:03 +0200

    "Martin Fouts" <Martin.Fouts@palmsource.com> writes:

    > I don't have a patch yet, but I've just spent a bit of time looking at
    > how kbuild works, and I believe there is a fairly straightforward way to
    > keep kbuild in the kernel tree but make it easy to split it out so that
    > someone could use it as a separate tool.

    That is obvious and people already are doing that, what I'm thinking of is
    moving menuconfig or *config out of the kernel so there is one well-defined
    external package. 

    -- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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