On Fri, 26 May 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> One of the purposes of making the CML2 language declarative rather than
> imperative is to make all the dependencies explicit, rather than implied
> by control structure as in CML1. Because that's so, over time it will
> be possible to improve the deductive algoritms in the front end without
> having to endure another replacement of the language.
Sigh... I suspect that it's the real reason why your approach doesn't make
sense to me - you are developing complex stuff that works for FUBAR domain
instead of getting the domain fixed.
Try to grep the tree for CONFIG_FOO - you'll see that most of the places
that care are in Makefiles. 99% of the rest is not needed - check the
history of fs/filesystems.c for example.
IOW, instead of developing clever ways to handle complex dependencies
we'ld be better off simplifying them and leaving the rest to make(1)...
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