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On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 |
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Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote: |
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> Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now |
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> thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is |
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> different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work |
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> correctly with it, I'm questioning the usefulness of having it slotted. |
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Could you elaborate on that? I don't remember having problems with |
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boost.m4 or cmake's default checks unless I'm missing something which |
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is obvious to you. |
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> So given that it's a PITA for the maintainers, a PITA for the users, |
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> eselect boost has been shown to be a bad idea and so on ... can we just |
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> go back to just install it and that's about it? |
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How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken |
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with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with |
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each release? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |