On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:11:45 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/01/13 17:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:53:48 +0100 > > Jacques Montier <jmont...@gmail.com> 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.mckin...@gmail.com
