Numbers that mean absolutely nothing.

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I was waiting for a Linux kernel to build.  It seems to take
longer to configure a new kernel every time, like the number
of options have been steadily increasing.  I thought I might
be hallucinating, you know?  Maybe I have just gotten
impatient and the bloat wasn't that bad.  Or maybe it is
the case that the options have gotten horribly numerous and
increasingly arcane.  In any case, I did this:

  for m in $list_of_linux_machines_here; do
    ssh $m wc -l '/usr/src/linux-*/.config'
  done | grep -v total | sort -n | tee /tmp/kconfigs

config.wc-l is the output of that.  But the results showed
different numbers for the same version (this is across
different machines, remember), and it looks to be due to
options selected.  The kernel finished building before I
could figure out if there was a way to actually measure the
number of options that are presented.  (How arcane they
are is inherently subjective.)  So I have added more
meaningless content to the internet, and these numbers mean
nothing.

config.wc-l

3648 /usr/src/linux-2.6.32.5/.config
3801 /usr/src/linux-2.6.34.1/.config
3832 /usr/src/linux-2.6.36.2/.config
4022 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38.5/.config
4106 /usr/src/linux-3.5.4/.config
4208 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
4227 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38.5/.config
4448 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
4478 /usr/src/linux-2.6.39.3/.config
4642 /usr/src/linux-3.6.8/.config
4730 /usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config
4838 /usr/src/linux-3.7.1/.config
5073 /usr/src/linux-3.5.4/.config