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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> Of course, the amount of time I've spent on this thread, I could perhaps |
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> have learned *exactly* what all these extended instruction sets do, who |
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> designed them, whether they're cross-licensed between manufacturers and what |
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> their prospects are for continued support in the future. But I would |
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> personally find that very boring, and I am much happier to have learned a |
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> little about how mplayer's build system works and how Gentoo wraps that. |
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It actually turns out that you can get the bare essentials on all of these |
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in about four minutes from Wikipedia. Just sayin'.... :) |
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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 user |
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should have to be arsed to set those USEs manually if they don't actually |
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care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? |
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Cheers, |
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Wyatt |
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