[Buildroot] [PATCH 05/80 v1] package/collectd: use 'menuconfig' instead of 'config'+'menu'

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Jan 18 22:18:08 UTC 2016


Thomas, All,

On 2016-01-18 23:05 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:00:15 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > I am very much and totally undecided on this either...
> > 
> > On one hand, sub-menus in sub-menus can be a bit tedious to navigate in,
> > hence the change to use comments a separators.
> > 
> > On the other hand, the new layout is definitely quite long, indeed, and
> > difficult to navigate as well.
> > 
> > I'll revert to use sub-menus, unless Peter chimes in to voice his
> > preference for the new layout.
> 
> But do we need to change anything at all for this patch?
> 
> While I agree that the alsa-lib and alsa-utils cases were silly,
> because we had a single sub-options that did nothing but give access to
> the sub-menu.
> 
> But in the case of collectd, the current situation looks good to me,
> and I don't see the need to introduce a sub-menu for it.

Well, the idea is that all packages that have sub-options all use the
same layout, so that the menuconfig really is more consistent than it is
today.

Now, tastes are very personal! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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