DESKTOP mode

[Paul Fox]

 > 
 > The idea is that we don't want to drown in CONFIG_applet1_FEATURE_x,
 > CONFIG_applet1_FEATURE_y, CONFIG_applet1_FEATURE_z, CONFIG_applet2_FEATURE_x,
 > CONFIG_applet2_FEATURE_y, CONFIG_applet2_FEATURE_z...
 > There are just farr too many of them.
 > 
 > Everything which is not likely to be ever needed on
 > the embedded device, is covered by single CONFIG_DESKTOP
 > (gzip -v is a good example).
 > 
 > However, if some option is under CONFIG_DESKTOP but then
 > someone feels [s]he really needs to be able to toggle
 > it separately, okay, send a patch which
 > (1) introduces new CONFIG_GZIP_FEATURE_V
 > (2) changes code to be conditionally compiled under it and
 > (3) adds "select CONFIG_GZIP_FEATURE_V" to CONFIG_DESKTOP entry,
 > so that selecting CONFIG_DESKTOP=y automagically turns it on too.
 > 
 > IOW: introduce individual CONFIGs on as-needed basis.

i think lumping a whole lot of unrelated options under a single
vague heading like "desktop" (what's that mean, anyway?) is
silly.  it's one thing to have separate options, and to put them
all under one config menu, or even to have a meta-option that
selects a whole lot of them for you (kind of like bareconfig,
allconfig, defconfig: i.e., "make desktopconfig".  but putting them
all together under one ifdef is just being lazy.

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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com