On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:01:16 +0000
Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with
> this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for
> their particular CPU.
> 
> Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to figure out a
> way we can have these flags set by default dependent on the user's
> CPU. This might require some additional logic in portage; I don't
> know.

I think the fewer sources of magic USE flags the better.  Maybe we could
document how to figure out what instruction sets a processor supports in the
handbook instead.


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