Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>:
> On the contrary, if the user has explicitly enabled modules, and selected
> the option for which the dependency exists as a module, it should default
> the dependency to build as a module. Obviously the user can override this,
> but it is safe and obvious to have it as the default.
>
> To select a module and have a dependency built into the main kernel
> because of it is _decidedly_ nonintuitive.
I agree.
Shortly I'll post a note describing the strategy I propose to use.
It's open to debate -- it may well be that people with more experience
in this problem domain can propose a smarter and/or simpler algorithm.
-- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. -- Joel Barlow, "Advice to the Privileged Orders", 1792-93
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