old style kernel configuration

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Thu Nov 22 05:05:24 UTC 2012


On 21 November 2012 23:52, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 11/21/12 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>
>> I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents.
>> While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the
>> "old style" kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually.
>>
>> Is there any value in keeping this documented as an alternative to
>> "make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail?
>
>
> I still do it quite often

Could you explain why? I think I will keep the documentation but I
want to update it with some explanation of when one wants to use the
old method.

-- 
Eitan Adler


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