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