Bug 410621

Summary:	dev-libs/boost: please split header-only 'libraries' out of main package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) <dev-zero>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	cpp+disabled, hwoarang, SebastianLuther
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2012-04-03 04:05:03 UTC

Boost provides a number of header-only libraries [1] which don't require any compiling and probably don't introduce any specific deps. Those are, for example, boost.mpl & boost.units.

I think users will appreciate being able to use applications requiring those libraries only without having to build a complete boost. Thus, it would be great if those could be installed by a separate ebuild (say, dev-cpp/boost-templates), and that could be pulled in by actual dev-libs/boost.

[1]:http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/?view=filtered_header-only

Comment 1 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-08-20 19:43:31 UTC

not an exact dupe, but the same story

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 260404 ***