2012-10-30 19:30:16 Diego Elio Pettenò napisał(a): > Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now > thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is > different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work > correctly with it, I'm questioning the usefulness of having it slotted. > > Among other things, with each GCC/GLIBC update all but a handful of > slots are kept working; in this case I think most if not all <1.50 are > broken. > > So given that it's a PITA for the maintainers, a PITA for the users, > eselect boost has been shown to be a bad idea and so on ... can we just > go back to just install it and that's about it?
I think that slotting is needed, but pkg_postinst() could create (without using `eselect boost`) symlinks like /usr/include/boost etc. It is possible that a package works with e.g. Boost 1.50, but not 1.51, so it could use boost-utils.eclass with BOOST_MAX_SLOT set to "1.50". -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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