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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: flameeyes@×××××××××.eu
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:11:58
Message-Id: 20121030211054.78c68b6e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:32:57 -0700
2 Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
3
4 > On 30/10/2012 12:24, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken
6 > > with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with
7 > > each release?
8 >
9 > How are you going to solve the problem that the packages that are not
10 > fixed to work with a new boost are not going to work anyway because
11 > boost.m4 will still get the latest one, and most of the old ones
12 > wouldn't work anyway because they are not compatible with the compiler/C
13 > library/whatever?
14
15 By inheriting boost-utils and using the correct function to use older
16 boost slot?
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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