It should be feasible, I just haven't got the time to do it yet.

Le 18 févr. 2010 à 03:44, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On Feb 17, 2010, at 20:29, Sam Kuper wrote:
> 
>> Maybe so. I wasn't aware of boost before it made my Mac fall over, so I 
>> can't claim any intimate knowledge of it. My gut instinct, though, is that 
>> especially for packages handled by a package manager and intended to provide 
>> limited functionality and to work with other such packages, small is 
>> beautiful. Isn't that the first principle of the Unix philosophy?
>> 
>> Can't boost be broken up into smaller packages and offered that way, so that 
>> only the needed parts of boost are fetched and installed when needed?
> 
> I don't know if that's possible for boost. If you're interested you could 
> consult the boost documentation or ask their developers what the options are 
> for compiling it, or speak with the MacPorts boost maintainer.

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