From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyqcR-0001pU-IU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:43:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k67Df163007600; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:41:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k67DbSkd003166 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:37:29 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dsl081-148-077.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.148.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CB16451E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44AE6360.8080504@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:36:32 -0500 From: Mike Doty User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags References: <200607061252.33028@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200607070139.10355@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44ADA441.9050309@gentoo.org> <200607070211.54587@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44ADAB5D.1060207@gentoo.org> <1152278855.31480.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1152278855.31480.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b4f9e13-f001-4273-b725-2bddcc23e3e5 X-Archives-Hash: 266ed0877e3a17a6a82508fc8bdd0bd7 Chris Gianelloni wrote: [snip] > This means it is now 36 profiles to support, if we dropped support on > all profiles except for the new ones. Without having any sort of > multiple inheritance available, this is really unmanageable. > This is exactly the same reason why amd64 won't move to a per CPU subprofile. it might be a good idea for ppc, but not for us. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list