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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:41:35
Message-Id: 45C119F1.1020702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
2 > * Hard dep upon boost. This sucks for g++-4.1 users.
3 >
4 > * Hard dep upon g++-4.1, which isn't available for all archs. This
5 > doesn't even work because there's no guarantee that >=4.1 is being used
6 > even if it's installed.
7 >
8 > * || ( ) deps, and hope that if the user has 4.1 installed then they're
9 > using it. Since library implementations aren't runtime switchable, this
10 > will lead to breakages if users upgrade gcc and then remove boost.
11 >
12 > None of these are particularly nice...
13 >
14
15 Newbie idea : g++ and boost both provide virtual/tr1
16
17 Newbie question : besides the fact that you would have to rebuild
18 packages if you changed the virtual, is there anything painfully obvious
19 why that would be a bad idea ?
20
21 Just a thought :)
22
23 Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>