Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 09:53:45 EST


Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
> How hard is it to maintain a database where the key for each entry is
> easy an unambigious?

It's not that simple, either. You have to track the symbols that are
*supposed* to be different between trees. The devil is in the details --
and it's a big devil.

-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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