thoughts on reorganizing BB menuconfig structure?

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 24 March 2006 3:16 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:51:57PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:39, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>   the biggest problem, i think, is the arbitrary grouping of so many
> >> entries under "Coreutils", "Linux System Utilities" and "Miscellaneous
> >> Utilities."  some thoughts (some large, some small):
> >
> >the groupings arent arbitrary, they correspond to the actual upstream
> > packages
>
> I agree with Mike.
>
> To me, it sounds like this proposed shuffling around is only trying to
> solve a UI "problem". IMO it doesn't make sense to actually move the *.c
> files around, does anyone agree with this?

Considering that svn rename has never worked as advertised for me (every time 
I try it, it blanks the history for the file), I'd advise against moving the 
files. :)

> Would it be easier to just have one central Config.in where we can
> change the order of menuconfig at will? This would solve the whole
> "move this applet in menuconfig there or there" but would still retain
> an intuitive (well, for me at least) assignment from applets to their
> known (upstream-)packages in the filesystem.

I could go either way on that one.  You can move it from one file to another 
as easily as you can move it around in a single file.

Rob
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