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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eselect OpenCL is wrong.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:44:07
Message-Id: 568E87AC.60403@verizon.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: eselect OpenCL is wrong. by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 06/01/16 18:32, Alan Grimes wrote:
3 >> Wrong, I say, WROOOOONG!!!!!
4 >> [...]
5 >> The game Planet Explorers (available on Steam) demonstrates how this
6 >> should be used. You are given a menu at the start of the game that lists
7 >> the available OpenCL implementations. You then select whatever device
8 >> you want to use for OpenCL that day...
9 >>
10 >> So there should not be eselect OpenCL, All gentoo needs to do is enforce
11 >> standards on where the relevant libraries are stored and the application
12 >> will select which one to use.
13 >
14 > That's already the case. They're stored in /usr/lib/OpenCL/vendors/.
15 > eselect just allows applications that don't provide a mechanism for
16 > selecting an implementation to work.
17 >
18 > Not sure what you're asking for here :-/
19 >
20
21 Okay, nm then. carry on. =P
22
23 I was just a bit concerned because sometimes eselect is, necessarily, a
24 bit more brutal about things.
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26 --
27 IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
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29 Powers are not rights.