DESKTOP mode

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:05:14AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>On Tuesday 03 October 2006 02:47, Paul Fox wrote:
>>  > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:02, Rob Landley wrote:
>>  > > > "I want to build bbox for wireless router" -> switch CONFIG_DESKTOP off
>>  > > > "I want to build bbox for my Red Hat box" -> switch CONFIG_DESKTOP on
>>  > > 
>>  > > I want to build bbox for a video kiosk which has some features of both: switch 
>>  > > CONFIG_DESKTOP halfway.
>>  > 
>>  > Such a user may (should?) contribute patche which separates needed options
>>  > off CONFIG_DESKTOP into separate CONFIG_SOMETHING.
>> 
>> which will then break the configs of everyone who has previously
>> been building successfully with CONFIG_DESKTOP -- with the next
>> release they'll have to look at the new persnickety option
>> anyway.
>
>New option can be added to "select" clause:
>
>config CONFIG_DESKTOP
>        bool "Enable options for full-blown desktop systems."
>        default n
>        select CONFIG_FEATURE_GZIP_V  <--------------------------
>        help
>          Enable options and features which are not essential.
>          Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown
>          desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an ebmbedded box.

config CONFIG_FEATURE_GZIP_V
	bool "support option -v"
	depends on CONFIG_GZIP
	default n
	default y if CONFIG_DESKTOP
	help
	  Allow for verbosity argument -v


$ yes 'N' | make oldconfig

This may do the trick.
>
>so it is automatically turned on by CONFIG_DESKTOP