On 2016/03/16 13:42, Peter Kay wrote:
> It's not an AVX instruction, as Wireshark runs on a Core2Duo pre Sandy
> Bridge when AVX arrived.
> 
> I agree that it looks too heavy for a P2, and last time I ran it under
> *nix it would have been the gtk version, I was surprised at all the
> dependencies it pulled in.
> 
> This issue is only likely to get worse, is it wise to do a CPU check,
> and refuse to install some packages?

Sorry I read your mail too quickly and missed the "pentium ii" mention,
I have a diff on ports@ to disable various cpu features that Qt5 had
autodetected which should help this.

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