On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:47:07 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012-09-09 10:06:43 Michał Górny napisał(a): > > No, we don't support older versions. > > Older versions must be supported to easily handle the situation when Boost > 1.49 is stable and > Boost 1.50 and 1.51 are unstable and not package.masked and package X has > only stable ebuilds > and all of them currently fail to build/work with Boost >=1.51, so > BOOST_MAX_VERSION="1.50" would > have to be used in all ebuilds of package X. > (Boost 1.49 would be used for stable users and Boost 1.50 would be used for > unstable users.) You are probably right. Even though I believe that we should treat 'older slot' support only as an interim solution before people fix their packages... -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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