Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

[RacerX]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Lucas Holt wrote:

> Don't worry about recompiling everything right away.  Gnome takes a long
> time to compile!  The cpu type does seem to help multimedia apps and WMs if
> they were designed to take advantage of the extra instructions.
>
> I usually get a machine up and then change the cpu type after I have the
> basics worked out.  Eventually after buildworlds and portupgrade I get
> everything built with the new settings.  It works out fine.

Perfect! Thanks - I want to take advantage of some of these settings. I 
just never bothered to set them on creation.

This is good to know tho - and now it goes in as a "Best Practice" to set 
these on new installs.



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