-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 02:30 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò 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. > > 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? > > Thanks,
As log as: #1 - the MAX_BOOST_VERSION thing isn't needed anymore (and i get the impression that it actually is, but putting that aside since i don't maintain any packages that depend on boost), and #2 - anything requiring boost gets bumped to EAPI5 to get the slot-operator benefits for rebuilds, ..seems to make sense to me also. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlCQMtYACgkQ2ugaI38ACPANHgEAkEFD/m87xg3KY6pzazUSqmZT MWxLJDgC1sy8GlYeEzUA/iIdCu0pPOC90FUMSXP2tjCgZeiGu/OmjM0iJa4rtPUi =FgJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
