Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes: >> We generally avoid negative options. That's why the runtime detection in >> mplayer is a default-on option and not the reverse. > > It's not a negative option though, it's just a (imho) bad > PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS default. I agree with the principle that we > shouldn't default to host-specific build options, and would rather we > turned this off by default. We currently have to ensure our bulk > builds are built with > > PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+= -mplayer-runtime-cpudetection > > which is a bit crap. I agree on avoiding negative optins, but runtime-cpudetetion is an option that when enabled has default behavior rather than special behavior without it. So proabbly we should remove it, and add compiletime-cpudetection, defaulting to off.
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