Am 25.01.2013 20:02, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> On 24/01/13 21:15, Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier:
>>> 2013/1/24 microcai <microcai@fedoraproject.org
>>> <mailto:microcai@fedoraproject.org>>
>> [...]
>>>      >>>>
>>>      >>>> 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) ?
>>>
>>>      update Nightshade to work with boost 1.52 is the only way to go.
>> [...]
>>> I already tried that, but Nightshade doesn't compile with
>>> boost-1.52... :-((
>>>
>>
>> I could rant about the stupidity that is boost and/or packages that
>> depend on it for some time but Flameeyes does a far better job at that.
> 
> I wonder what the view on bundled boost headers is with Gentoo devs. I'm
> currently working on a project where I need boost, and now I'm thinking
> about using BCP (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/tools/bcp) to
> bundle what I need within the project.  At least this would guarantee
> that the package wouldn't be affected by this issue.
> 
> 

As I understand it, bundling the headers is exactly what you are
supposed to do with boost.

Regards,
Florian Philipp