Someone said:
Someone> Thing is if you have a default value for a choice and you
Someone> select another, the previous (default) value doesn't get discarded.
Someone> So you get two definition from the same choice prompt. The 'choice'
Someone> command should discard all variable but the one selected, not just
Someone> defining the one that you select.
The 'choice' command already does that in all interpreters. This is not
the problem.
Russell> It's actually more complicated than that. 'choice' does not
Russell> behave the same way as the other commands in the config file
Russell> - it is never grayed out under any circumstances, and I also suspect
Russell> that even when it is supposed to be grayed out and no options
Russell> selected, it still defines one option.
Yes, this is the problem. It's another xconfig bug that's been there
for five years.
Axel Boldt sent me a patch to fix this so it will be fixed in the next
round of xconfig bug fixes.
Michael
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