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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:10:25
Message-Id: 20150115121009.1a2349a8@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND by "vivo75@gmail.com"
1 On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:50:25 +0100
2 "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Il 15/01/2015 11:30, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
5 > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:15 +0000 (UTC)
6 > > Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> wrote:
9 > >>> All that requires is knowing the names, though; it would be
10 > >>> fine if no package actually uses the feature yet.
11 > >> ++
12 > >>
13 > >> More precisely: When changing the names anyway,
14 > >> IMHO it would be a very good idea to follow the convention of the
15 > >> "flag" names in /proc/cpuinfo and add all flags supported
16 > >> there as possible USE-flags, no matter, whether they are currently
17 > >> used in some package or not.
18 > >
19 > > seriously ?
20 > >
21 > > $ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 1 | wc -w
22 > > 94
23 > >
24 >
25 > Actually I like the idea, there are performances problems related to
26 > ebuilds or portage?
27
28
29 it is not about performance but rather about writing the proper .desc
30 file; i don't think this will ever happen if nobody baking up the idea
31 comes with such a file
32
33 Alexis.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>