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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:02:19
Message-Id: AANLkTi=BNNS7fViZmpHUzOzZF3VFze_zFW-D=Cqnce84@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
2 [snip]
3
4 I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with
5 this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for
6 their particular CPU.
7
8 Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to figure out a
9 way we can have these flags set by default dependent on the user's
10 CPU. This might require some additional logic in portage; I don't
11 know.
12
13 Matt

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