Alexander Skwar schreef: > No, that doesn't make sense. A simple question: Why is 3dfx not in > the default set of USE flags? If you install a graphics software, > like xorg, 3dfx users probably want it. And if you're not a 3dfx > user, it won't do harm.
For something like 3dfx, this is not necessarily true. I've certainly had packages (mplayer, kernel) fail because *hardware* support was enabled for things I couldn't use (and even things I should be able to use but can't for this package-- I generally have to compile mplayer -mmx and -sse or it won't compile, even though my AMD CPU supports both instruction sets). In general, I've found both the kernel and individual packages to be quite sensitive when compiling optional support for hardware that is not present. So in that example, it likely *can* do harm. Optional *software* support is a different matter entirely. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
