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Re: [PATCH] enable buildable targets by default


From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable buildable targets by default
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:38:19 +0200

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Once everything is compiled by default, some of the configure options
>> become less meaningful, so we can consider removing them.
>> [...]
>> I think we should provide meaningful options.  For example, an option to
>> disable compiling debugging tools, or an option to add extra sanity
>> checks.  An option to disable efiemu64 is not meaningful for someone who
>> doesn't know how to use efiemu64.
>
> I fully agree.  The idea with my proposal (we talked this on IRC, I think)
> was to simplify things, so I proposed that we enable everything so we don't
> have to provide flags, etc.
The main pro was to avoid frequent breakage as we experienced with grub-emu.
>
> I prefer if we got rid of the flags, or at least most of them (lumping them
> together with a flag to disable debug tools or so),
I'm undecided on this point. On one hand they can be useful if used
correctly on the other hand if removing them would avoid users doing
errors
> and remove the summary
> message as well.
>
However I really think summary message should remain. It avoids
developpers to scroll through tons of messages to find out if the part
they need is built and if it isn't why
> --
> Robert Millan
>
>  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
>  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
>  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
>



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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git



-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git




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