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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boost version problem
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:06:47
Message-Id: 20130124170559.3fc6e690@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Boost version problem by Jacques Montier
1 On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:53:48 +0100
2 Jacques Montier <jmontier@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hi all,
5 >
6 > Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost > 1.49 (so works with boost-1.52.0-r5) and
7 > Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs boost < 1.5
8 > (so works with 1.49.0-r2).
9 > Is it possible to install both 1.49 and 1.52 (in new slot) ?
10
11 No.
12
13 Boost IIRC used to be slotted, but not anymore. Like any other package,
14 you get one and only one version at a time.
15
16 > When i emerge boost-1.52, boots-1.49 in uninstalled and vice versa.
17
18 So don't install boost-1.52 and take it out of world if you have it
19 there.
20
21 Portage will install boost-1.49.0-r2 for you and maintain the updates
22 for you. You do not have to fiddle with it.
23
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25
26 --
27 Alan McKinnon
28 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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