Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:07:58
Message-Id: 20120426170645.7cf0b268@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog by Matt Turner
1 On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:15:34 -0400
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > > I haven't followed the prev. conversation but what's wrong with a
7 > > USE flag for SSE2? We already have SSE2 flags, even global..
8 >
9 > That's not it. The flash binary uses SSE2 instructions without
10 > checking for their presence, which causes bad things on systems
11 > without SSE2. The purpose of the 'sse2check' flag was to die if the
12 > system doesn't have SSE2 and print a message telling the user to use
13 > an older version of flash.
14 >
15 > The relevant bug is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410547
16 >
17
18 wouldnt adding a sse2 useflag and putting it in REQUIRED_USE solve the
19 problem ?
20
21 afaik portage wont even try to upgrade if people have -sse2
22
23 A.

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