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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> Ok I see where you are going with that argument. However when you parse all
> the existing Config.in files into a tree you can see those properties by 
> looking from any node back to its dependancies

Granted.  If, that is, the representation you generate supports that kind
of backtracking.  This turns out to be very hard if you're starting from
an imperative representation rather than a declarative one.  

But, as a separate issue, the CML2 design *could* be reworked to support
a multiple-apex tree, if there were any advantage to doing so.  I don't
see one.  Do you?
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