On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
> 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. Could you elaborate on that? I don't remember having problems with boost.m4 or cmake's default checks unless I'm missing something which is obvious to you. > 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? How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with each release? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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