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 1M9S7I-0006lk-Lt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:01:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1913DE04DC; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.optus.com.au (mail1.optus.com.au [203.13.126.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB58DE04DC for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 23:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.optus.com.au (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A29D20F066 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from chow2ke002.optus.com.au (unknown [161.43.32.103]) by mail1.optus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C28420F05D for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from excprdhubw001.optus.com.au ([10.8.36.36]) by chow2ke002.optus.com.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:56 +1000 Received: from excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au ([10.8.36.30]) by excprdhubw001.optus.com.au ([10.8.36.36]) with mapi; Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:56 +1000 From: Adam Carter To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:45 +1000 Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Thread-Index: AcnfB2P5CIXTxTm4ReqJNjMwDYaNRgAFjvGA Message-ID: <5602B0BD6D59AE4791BE83104940118DC1FA2D8C@excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200905272209.36348.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US, en-AU Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US, en-AU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2009 23:00:56.0124 (UTC) FILETIME=[FE0FEFC0:01C9DF1E] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.0.0.3187-5.6.0.1016-16668.002 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-Result-Xfilter: Match text exemption rules:Yes X-Archives-Salt: 01b94160-ae78-49a7-b248-ae64730af698 X-Archives-Hash: 112ef6d0ccf286a4b07f0b7ffd06afeb > > > 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. I'm with Wyatt on this one. Can we appreciate there may be a difference bet= ween convenience and hand holding? If we consider the case where the user i= s not interested in moving binary packages between machines, there is nothi= ng to be gained from customsing these CPU feature flags as you always want = all of them. Personally I wouldn't bother putting a feature request in for this, as I kn= ow which flags to use and as I only build about one gentoo box a year so th= e overhead is low.