Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Why not having everybody's tree consistent with themselves and have whatever
> CONFIGURE_* symbols and help text be merged along with the very code it
> refers to?  It's worthless to have config symbols be merged into Linus' or
> Alan's tree if the code isn't there (yet).  It simply makes no sense.

And now it has a cost, too.  It makes finding real bugs more difficult.
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