On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 20:53:18 -0400 
 der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

 > This is fine for "major" options, like COMPAT_10.  It rapidly becomes a
 > maintenance nightmare when it comes to things like RASTERCONS_SMALLFONT
 > or REAL_CLISTS or MAPPED_MBUFS or ALLOCPRINT or TRIPLE or
 > AUDIO_C_HANDLER or COUNT_SW_LEFTOVERS or FPU_SHL1_BY_ADD or
 > PMAP_PTESYNC or EXTREME_DEBUG or EXTREME_EXTREME_DEBUG (I kid you not)
 > or VMFAULT_TRACE or ....

Agreed ... It would be up to the individual ports to decide how to handle 
those.

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