Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller
>
> <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>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.

There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your 
hand.

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