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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:59:50
Message-Id: 20150124005924.bf7304f23bac9a3e8a406718@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86 by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:22:31 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > > > To help you enable the correct USE flags, we are providing a Python
3 > > > script which generates the correct value from your /proc/cpuinfo [1].
4 > > > The Python script can be downloaded and executed using the following
5 > > > command:
6 > > >
7 > > > $ wget -O - dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py | python
8 > >
9 > > Can we not encourage people to pipe stuff from a plain-http website into
10 > > an interpreter?
11 >
12 > Find a better solution.
13
14 Why not to ship this script together with portage (using some
15 USE=tools)? Alternatively it may be added as an independent ebuild
16 in app-admin (like we already have different cleaners and updaters).
17
18 Best regards,
19 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86 "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>