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 1M9QJh-000355-3b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:05:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89796E0469; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689BDE0469 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([70.121.200.185]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090527210456824.DYVI28835@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:04:57 +0000 Received: by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix, from userid 58) id 3C5D011479; Wed, 27 May 2009 17:04:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on basement.kutulu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7F7111457 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 17:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A1DAAF6.5000504@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:04:54 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" References: <4E38BD16-0410-4A31-839C-290364A8D735@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200905272204.06302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200905272209.36348.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba615be3-c00f-4648-be94-b58bb5dbc980 X-Archives-Hash: 94949b3a48bcc0519336976a8464da01 On 5/27/2009 4:40 PM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > 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. > > > Oh right, what was I thinking, giving the users an optional tool to make > their lives marginally easier after they've tired of trying to remember > for their thirtieth install just which of these inane x86 SIMD > instructions are supported by cpu x? I'm rolling my eyes over here, > guys; that was uncalled for and you know it. Clearly you haven't seen any of the Gentoo Installer threads.