* Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Where a package does run-time detection, there's no need for any > conditional compilation as they build for everything anyway, so such > packages wouldn't use mmx/sse/sse2 etc USE flags anyway.
Well, there are still valid reasons: if you *know* you'll run the binary only on non-mmx systems, you'd probably get rid of it to make the binary smaller and reduce possible points of errors. I'd consider the runtime-detection just as an extra failsafe check. <snip> > There are relatively few packages affected (<1%), so I think it's worth > a try. In the end it may be that a few packages need to deal with > stuff manually like with the current USE flags, but they'd be local USE > flags at that point. ACK. Nobody forbids some packages having their own local useflags, if really necessary. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
