> hardware specific optimizations that will naturally negate this stated aim Distro packages are compiled on their build server and distributed to users with a

> hardware specific optimizations that will naturally negate this stated aim Distro packages are compiled on their build server and distributed to users with all kinds of systems; therefore, by nature, it should not use optimizations specific to the builder's hardware. On source-based distros like Gentoo, yes, users adding optimization flags would get a different output. But there is still value in having the same hardware/compilation flags result in the same output.