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.