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2012-10-30 19:30:16 Diego Elio Pettenò napisał(a): |
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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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> Among other things, with each GCC/GLIBC update all but a handful of |
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> slots are kept working; in this case I think most if not all <1.50 are |
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> broken. |
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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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I think that slotting is needed, but pkg_postinst() could create (without using `eselect boost`) symlinks like /usr/include/boost etc. |
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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". |
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