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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:40:32
Message-Id: 50902B66.3000604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost by "Michał Górny"
1 On 30/10/12 21:24, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700
3 >> So given that it's a PITA for the maintainers, a PITA for the users,
4 >> eselect boost has been shown to be a bad idea and so on ... can we just
5 >> go back to just install it and that's about it?
6 >
7 > How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken
8 > with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with
9 > each release?
10 >
11
12 That would be the job for the maintainers of the packages. If they don't
13 fix it, they lastrite it. Simple as that. No reason to treat boost any
14 different from, say, jpeg or libpng