On 30/10/2012 19:50, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > I think that slotting is needed, but pkg_postinst() could create > (without using `eselect boost`) symlinks like /usr/include/boost > etc. It is possible that a package works with e.g. Boost 1.50, but > not 1.51, so it could use boost-utils.eclass with BOOST_MAX_SLOT set > to "1.50".
That still does *not* solve a thing. It solves the _current_ issue with glibc-2.16, and we'll be back to square one with gcc 4.8, or glibc 2.17, or icu 51, or $whatever_else_the_fuck $n+1. Crazy slots for no reason just have to stop. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
