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On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: |
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> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller |
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> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> > > Of course, the amount of time I've spent on this thread, I could |
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> > > perhaps have learned *exactly* what all these extended instruction sets |
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> > > do, who designed them, whether they're cross-licensed between |
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> > > manufacturers and what their prospects are for continued support in the |
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> > > future. But I would personally find that very boring, and I am much |
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> > > happier to have learned a little about how mplayer's build system works |
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> > > and how Gentoo wraps that. |
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> > |
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> > It actually turns out that you can get the bare essentials on all of |
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> > these in about four minutes from Wikipedia. Just sayin'.... :) |
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> > |
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> > Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a |
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> > FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. I honestly don't understand why the |
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> > user should have to be arsed to set those USEs manually if they don't |
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> > actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? |
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> thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. |
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There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your |
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hand. |
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