Re: boost, BOOST_HAS_VARIADIC_TMPL and std=c++0x

[Anthony Mallet <anthony.mallet%laas.fr@localhost>]

On Thursday, at 11:05, David Holland wrote:
| My opinion is that given what Boost is, what it does, and the problems
| to be expected for it, we're better off wiring down its configuration
| as much as possible. It's hard enough trying to figure out wtf is
| going on in the C++ when something fails; wading through to figure out
| what its configuration system did to you as well will only make it
| that much worse.
| 
| I already pretty much avoid package failures that involve Boost,
| though, so take this for what it's worth.

Couldn't this be an option of the boost-* packages? 
 - default (no option): autoconf
 - option boost-config: Boost.Config

And maybe write somewhere that pkgsrc does not encourage using the boost-config
option.