Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@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 16:01:04
Message-Id: 20120426180004.65f0f2eb@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog by Ryan Hill
1 On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:04:08 -0600
2 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Arg, no. Please just print the warning if the host doesn't do SSE2.
5 > There's no reason to have a USE flag here (and _really_ no reason to
6 > make it fatal)
7
8 I entirely agree there. :)
9
10 > , especially for an instruction set that every system has supported
11 > for over a decade.
12
13 Er, some of my teenage systems run desktops just fine here, thanks. And
14 one of them is just nine years old right now but still doesn't support
15 SSE2 (merely SSE[1]).
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17
18 Regards,
19 jer
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21
22 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Athlon_XP#Barton_and_Thorton - see
23 [2] right above that for the actual specs.
24 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Athlon_XP#Thoroughbred_.28T-Bred.29

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