Sean Chittenden wrote:

>> For sure it is.  Debian is my primary platform and I'd like this to
>> be seamless.  I've pondered support for multiple simultaneous
>> installations, possibly with a layout like this:
> 
> Because of the trickery of the loader using unresolved symlinks (for
> non-statically linked apps, but who does that with boost?), please
> don't do something convenient like:
> 
> /usr
>    local
>      lib
>        boost-1.40.0
>        boost-1.41.0
>        boost -> boost-1.41.0
> 
> Lazy developers will use boost and not boost-1.40.0 and suddenly
> things will break in strange, hard to figure out ways.

Could you clarify what will break?

- Volodya


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