From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9PMH-0007QF-Pc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:04:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F6DCE04A5; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f175.google.com (mail-bw0-f175.google.com [209.85.218.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2334E04A5 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so4421519bwz.34 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:04:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=YmzAJTzxR+wm7mpWlrVKOx0RWJoNeJ/nIpKV9iT903I=; b=aJTSyaDUnthjjMGCyYHzNjsJh4UaSa9hj5YyRgqRRUgiqeZqexx7jhfDmwrVEGF0lA H86XDlzZp0K/gGYS4xYW1gsUIfFgANzZ6bGcLEs3d56atC7FbdTr+ced2tScjFyjBYTS hwSscLoCZNUXrNTCLqOngdTwVA1FSwuWXiax0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dFufQRrMhtgH3tqe8hV9EF/wJfFem3etO/9pJMMqJCItBIbfKDNZWNYRiCk3++RO1T AtM6qdcaVe5MWaCtd++4Yf4v8A90xrGA9YElFKMFC0s8vREMqKatINPBkTCUzT6L/Glf 1mO/TdOAE1M07CfY45uu4fzoHm8zzxRt4f0j8= Received: by 10.204.120.16 with SMTP id b16mr334465bkr.64.1243454652854; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm9097214bwz.47.2009.05.27.13.04.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 13:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:04:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.3r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E38BD16-0410-4A31-839C-290364A8D735@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905272204.06302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 27056cbe-776f-42e9-99dc-2cab8aa18903 X-Archives-Hash: f2061fa4ab6888fac5401af3bff02d73 On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller wrote: > > Of course, the amount of time I've spent on this thread, I could perhaps > > have learned *exactly* what all these extended instruction sets do, who > > designed them, whether they're cross-licensed between manufacturers and > > what their prospects are for continued support in the future. But I would > > personally find that very boring, and I am much happier to have learned a > > little about how mplayer's build system works and how Gentoo wraps that. > > It actually turns out that you can get the bare essentials on all of these > in about four minutes from Wikipedia. Just sayin'.... :) > > Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a > FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. I honestly don't understand why the > user should have to be arsed to set those USEs manually if they don't > actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already.