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From: Jacques Montier <jmontier@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:54:11
Message-Id: CAHVEG0DXtgpCztw=u7C2NY=TN8aLeVu4Ha0=36GHgYV2EKOGmQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem by Nikos Chantziaras
1 2013/1/24 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
2
3 > On 24/01/13 17:05, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:53:48 +0100
6 >> Jacques Montier <jmontier@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >>
8 >> Hi all,
9 >>>
10 >>> Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost > 1.49 (so works with boost-1.52.0-r5) and
11 >>> Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs boost < 1.5
12 >>> (so works with 1.49.0-r2).
13 >>> Is it possible to install both 1.49 and 1.52 (in new slot) ?
14 >>>
15 >>
16 >> No.
17 >>
18 >> Boost IIRC used to be slotted, but not anymore. Like any other package,
19 >> you get one and only one version at a time.
20 >>
21 >> When i emerge boost-1.52, boots-1.49 in uninstalled and vice versa.
22 >>>
23 >>
24 >> So don't install boost-1.52 and take it out of world if you have it
25 >> there.
26 >>
27 >> Portage will install boost-1.49.0-r2 for you and maintain the updates
28 >> for you. You do not have to fiddle with it.
29 >>
30 >
31 > What if I need boost-1.52 for my own software I build?
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 Libreoffice-4.0 needs app-text/libmspub and dev-libs/liborcus which need
36 boost-1.52.
37 So what can i do ?
38 Actually, i have boost-1.49.0-r2 and Libreoffice-3.6.4.3
39
40 --
41 Jacques

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