From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76417138658 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E6F721C084; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f44.google.com (mail-bk0-f44.google.com [209.85.214.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E20C21C003 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f44.google.com with SMTP id j4so1566732bkw.17 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:49:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nimIqMLZ/lDei8GBthdDqwjhxBx6Ug2q/wJg6sTCG7g=; b=JccsPbp7VR5d1a6A6re28I9mXdjnpBaLYxC1BimF2YhqvrPfMiDm3kQ8oHmFD+z09K Mid8taikXLvlCSCvRTHpCv4xILBjCaOU1fO9wyQ4Lk1wJKgu1jXhk/YIl8aSWGObNi3b vad/q+L0d72FTyJohMUmxbnKlNX+ivbcflXdVzHfs/v4aIJ5euIveFeHK+RFK7nlorkk LL9WRkB5I3NXXZC4AUbPTDSoRb7NnALipyzXGOrRyIyayQcrE1Fy0EoLsHqK+jiClaIu NJ+8+pv7Se9gs5/tpmJRhSX/qCanpF24hgNeAm7mlzb2qqHDfzFhyGBEBagkg7DcVwua oPuA== X-Received: by 10.204.149.86 with SMTP id s22mr1003180bkv.57.1359042558649; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f24sm17328614bkv.7.2013.01.24.07.49.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:49:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:48:43 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem Message-ID: <20130124174843.4a4210aa@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20130124170559.3fc6e690@khamul.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f3a63950-a464-4d81-a9bc-17f9e3ff2cc4 X-Archives-Hash: 7472d0c6f5b424c88cf669cbaacea400 On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:11:45 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 24/01/13 17:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:53:48 +0100 > > Jacques Montier wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost > 1.49 (so works with boost-1.52.0-r5) > >> and Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs > >> boost < 1.5 (so works with 1.49.0-r2). > >> Is it possible to install both 1.49 and 1.52 (in new slot) ? > > > > No. > > > > Boost IIRC used to be slotted, but not anymore. Like any other > > package, you get one and only one version at a time. > > > >> When i emerge boost-1.52, boots-1.49 in uninstalled and vice versa. > > > > So don't install boost-1.52 and take it out of world if you have it > > there. > > > > Portage will install boost-1.49.0-r2 for you and maintain the > > updates for you. You do not have to fiddle with it. > > What if I need boost-1.52 for my own software I build? Then you are up the creek without a paddle :-) In that case Jacques would have to forego Nightshade LSS as the deps cannot be resolved. But he didn't say he needs boost-1.52 for his own software, he actually implied the opposite by explicitly saying that a certain given version in portage satisfies two packages that depend on boost. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com