Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:56:24
Message-Id: 50909318.80500@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 On 30/10/2012 19:50, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2 > I think that slotting is needed, but pkg_postinst() could create
3 > (without using `eselect boost`) symlinks like /usr/include/boost
4 > etc. It is possible that a package works with e.g. Boost 1.50, but
5 > not 1.51, so it could use boost-utils.eclass with BOOST_MAX_SLOT set
6 > to "1.50".
7
8 That still does *not* solve a thing. It solves the _current_ issue with
9 glibc-2.16, and we'll be back to square one with gcc 4.8, or glibc 2.17,
10 or icu 51, or $whatever_else_the_fuck $n+1.
11
12 Crazy slots for no reason just have to stop.
13
14 --
15 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
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