On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>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? Cheers, Wyatt
