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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] latest boost vs. eselected boost
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:28:15
Message-Id: 4F17D3EC.8080202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] latest boost vs. eselected boost by Johannes Huber
1 On 1/19/12 9:05 AM, Johannes Huber wrote:
2 > Summary of the comments:
3 > 1) Ebuilds should always pick the latest boost version.
4 > 2) Boost should be compared to gcc, python, ruby etc
5 >
6 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335108
7
8 Right, Tiziano Müller's (dev-zero) comments are pretty clear that
9 ebuilds should use latest boost.
10
11 I'm fine with last-riting eselect-boost, and I'm also fine with
12 eselect-boost applying to ebuilds too, like eselect-python.
13
14 What I mostly care about is consistency and principle of least surprise.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] latest boost vs. eselected boost Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>