From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 14:51:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB5816A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:51:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF7843D46 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:51:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from makeworld.com (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA95A6171; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:51:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (racerx@localhost)i6QEpo73045173; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:51:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:51:49 -0500 (CDT) From: RacerX To: Lucas Holt In-Reply-To: <200407261450.i6QEoTfS002768@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net> Message-ID: <20040726095011.W45134@makeworld.com> References: <200407261450.i6QEoTfS002768@adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-makeworld.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-makeworld.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: racerx@makeworld.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: 'Henrik W Lund' Subject: RE: Questions regarding /etc/make.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:51:59 -0000 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. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Mon Jul 26 2004 at 03:02:52 daily.cvd updated (version: 422, sigs: 1134, f-level: 2, builder: ccordes)