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Wallsandfences
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:12 pm    Post subject: More informative and comprehesive graphic menuconfig tool? Reply with quote

I'm using menuconfig, and trying to grab some wisdom at pappy's kernelseeds and numerous forum posts.

But still, many explanations of kernel configurations are just double dutch to me -- or simply have no explanation at all.

Is there a more talkative (and possibly gui-based) program?

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are the following nice UI's:

make xconfig - provides a qt4 based interface.
make gconfig - provides a gtk based interface
make nconfig - provides a nicer ncurses based interface.

none of the above is more "informative" than the help you can get by pressing 'h' on any item while running menuconfig.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi , i get
Code:
emerge -av gconfig

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gconfig".

emerge: searching for similar names...
emerge: Maybe you meant any of these: virtual/pkgconfig, dev-util/pkgconfig, sys-devel/gnuconfig, net-misc/vconfig?


Ma Google doesn't reveal anything useful as well

Which is gconfig's ebuild?

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No ebuild. Just run
Code:
make gconfig
instead of
Code:
make menuconfig
If you're using genkernel, then the command line option is --gconfig. :wink:

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