Possible users from the tree: altivec useflag consumers (many) media libraries (x264, x265, libpng and others.)
also firefox-70[1] will have auto-detection of features but we may want to prevent automagic optimizations. cpuid2cpuflags support[2] is ready and and will be merged soon, so users will have a gentoo-way of setting those flags. And this patch in github PR[3] format for easy viewing [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/252643ff91c5 [2] https://github.com/mgorny/cpuid2cpuflags/pull/13 [3] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12829