On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:57:20 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > USE flags are only there to offer choice where such a thing is sane. | > If there aren't any non-SSE amd64 CPUs then a USE flag is pointless. | > The asm USE flags are so that we can build, say, i686 stages on a | > pentium 4 machine without having problems. | | How about, "I don't want to enable SSE because my version of gcc has | problems with it."
Should be wrapped in a has_version check and not left up to the user. Or, better yet, the package in question should block gcc versions it hates on any given arch. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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