On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:11 +0000, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this, > but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs. > Boost is a C++ library. It provides facilities for such things as handling XML, abstracting filesystems, complex data structures, etc, etc.
See http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0 encfs is a FUSE and accompanying utilties. It utilizes C++ and uses a few libraries, among them Boost. > The home page indicates its something of a helper application for > using cpp++ programming language and applications. > It's a library, not an application (qlist boost). > The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there with kde when > it comes to compiling that critter. > It's C++. g++ is slow. > I'm rebuilding my main desktop from scratch install and have been > used to using encfs for some private data... I don't recall having > to wrestle `boost' to the ground when I installed encfs (long ago). > > I may just have been too busy to see it burning up time. But what > seems like hrs is just a bit lenghy for something that is billed > as a sort of helper application. > It's a library. Not a helper application. It includes a lot of useful stuff (although encfs probably uses only a few of them). > Well its really only been a little over an hour but I see no signs of > the end coming near in the present output... > > I'ts not really a big complaint... I'm more curious than put out. > Being a retiree and lazy to boot I have the time for it... hehe. > > Oh, and my hardware is not that uptodate ... its p4 celeron 3.0 cpu > with 3GB ram. > > If you *really* want to know what encfs uses Boost for you could, of course, examine the source :) But you really only need to know that it's a big C++ library that's used by encfs. Go grab a coffee or do a load of laundry or something. -a
