Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > surely this should be something that is done after installation. If you are > > going to say 'so people who have i686 machines will have faster/better > > machines' then it should also optimise for athlons as well!!! > > I'm sure if someone submitted a patch to do so it'd be accepted in this > particular case. There are only a couple libraries in the i686 > directory (the i586 ones are just in /lib). They are libraries that
Nope, the problem is more of the performance you gain with that, compared to the diskspace it uses. And gentoo or mandrake users compiling all for athlon target seem to report that it doesn't make a significant difference. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
