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From: Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:43:44
Message-Id: 44AE6360.8080504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 [snip]
3
4 > This means it is now 36 profiles to support, if we dropped support on
5 > all profiles except for the new ones. Without having any sort of
6 > multiple inheritance available, this is really unmanageable.
7 >
8
9 This is exactly the same reason why amd64 won't move to a per CPU
10 subprofile. it might be a good idea for ppc, but not for us.
11 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] CPU subprofiles (was: Replacing cpu-feature USE flags) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>