darwin osx profile and spit keyword idea

i noticed that altivec, mmx, sse and other cpu specific use
flags are
disabled.  i was looking to enable those in the profile but
realized
that x86 and ppc macos are the same profile.

i had an idea a while ago that keywords should be split up
into cpu and
operating system; perhaps a third for 32 bit or 64 bit. 
this way there
is less redundancy.  anything ppc (or g4/g5) can have
altivec.  and
anything that is x86 (or pentium whatever) can have mmx etc.
 then the
operating system can be linux, mac, freebsd, prefix or
something.

anyone have any comments on this or this a bad idea ?

matt
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matt wrote:
> i noticed that altivec, mmx, sse and other cpu specific
use flags are
> disabled.  i was looking to enable those in the profile
but realized
> that x86 and ppc macos are the same profile.
>
> i had an idea a while ago that keywords should be split
up into cpu and
> operating system; perhaps a third for 32 bit or 64 bit.
 this way there
> is less redundancy.  anything ppc (or g4/g5) can have
altivec.  and
> anything that is x86 (or pentium whatever) can have mmx
etc.  then the
> operating system can be linux, mac, freebsd, prefix or
something.
>
> anyone have any comments on this or this a bad idea ?
>
> matt
>   
also, another idea, if packages are unknown on a system mark
them with ?
instead of -, and if they are known not to work on a system
(like
something that uses x86 asm) mark them with and X.

matt
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On 07.02.2007, at 06:03, matt wrote:

> i noticed that altivec, mmx, sse and other cpu specific
use flags are
> disabled.

I asked genstef to enable altivec for ppc-macos and it is
now enabled  
for ppc-macos.

Philipp
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