On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:09:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use different > > packages for each CPU type. > > I compile my own kernels, and have for a long time. But it's a pain > to go through all the poorly-documented options and takes quite a > while to select those options and actually build a kernel. And then > there's the times I have to go back and recompile because I left out > my mouse drivers, or ide-scsi, or vfat. It's entirely rational to > want to pick up the 10% improvement from hitting the right button in > dselect and not worry about the 20% from recompiling the kernel.
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