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 1M9PSt-0000jz-Hh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:11:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85F80E0655; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493DEE0655 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4340048ewy.34 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.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:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Mba61pA1fGclX22tiN2QKFtgVCk6KJutvO7QW7rqsv4=; b=H/VwlqZOMLZfgb02zuk5jkEBPb2n7TzdkV7D7xDmISO3xxi3QNqV9s2hqe/+yMWhZ2 wuSCPP5t5/Ycbe61DI5t8AWbf88/KIQJCSjEHLlA0p+UX2IF8sj/PMykBwFHxo3phq8P 9mhHrAbybAz0T8Ot/wrsJre4D9VeQ90t29Io0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ogwKH1QLPfFsF9BOGVti7gF0mK2HolFhxaAyIr1qi/er1Bgw8vg7dzAaRFfNPbmooM 680NDXE9XYO9Bn1zH8Gewu61Vc23MLtjCS+TZtCW1NJ8J0uSE0y47IwoH+v2nbQJueCK y+5pmhWe+fCVtXkBi+GHWqF2+6ixYq09Fy7BE= Received: by 10.210.18.18 with SMTP id 18mr2013402ebr.11.1243455065760; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm5421447gvb.11.2009.05.27.13.11.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 13:11:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:09:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E38BD16-0410-4A31-839C-290364A8D735@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200905272204.06302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905272204.06302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905272209.36348.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4004e03f-4b71-41c8-9224-a34149dbdff5 X-Archives-Hash: 2baf6479f072df07084fe3403b5bd35b 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 > > 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com