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List:       linux-kbuild
Subject:    Re: [RFC 0/3] kconfig: add support for conflict resolution
From:       Boris Kolpackov <boris () codesynthesis ! com>
Date:       2021-10-20 12:25:24
Message-ID: boris.20211020141745 () codesynthesis ! com
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Thorsten Berger <thorsten.berger@rub.de> writes:

> New UI extensions are made to xconfig with panes and buttons to allow users
> to express new desired target options, calculate fixes, and apply any of
> found solutions.
>
> [...]
>
> You can see a YouTube video demonstrating this work [2].

While the demo looks impressive, I wonder if you ran into many cases
where the number of solution and/or the number of fixes in a solution
is large (and therefore would be hard for a human to make a decision
about)?

My closest experience with something like this is aptitude and the
few times I tried to use it to solve package dependency issues were
futile because of that (i.e., large number of alternative solutions
and large number of changes in each solution).
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