On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:21 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 30/10/12 03:45 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > Dne Út 30. října 2012 20:24:26, Michał Górny napsal(a): > >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 > >> > >> Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > > >> > >>> 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? > > > > Simple, as any other lib, depend on older version and possibly port > > it forward. If that does not work then mask and wipe. Life goes > > on. > > > > If we un-slot boost there won't be an 'older' version available on > users systems anymore; when the new boost hits ~arch and then stable, > all ~arch / stable rdeps will -need- to build against that version of > boost, period (or be lastrite'd as ssuominen suggested) .... unless > i'm missing your meaning here? a sane pm wont try to upgrade to version 5 if <5 is required by some package. +1 for unslotting
