Boost Library Parallel Installation

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 01/23/2011 11:19 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> I remember,  back in the day, when I used to have to install libraries 
> from earlier releases to support Word Perfect 8.  That was before Red 
> Hat started up Fedora and Open Office, soon to be Libre Office, which 
> was then still Star Office was really ready for prime time.  As I recall 
> the process wasn't that hard.  I suppose that the boost libraries must 
> be more deeply entwined.

Ideally libraries would be designed to be parallel installable like say
GTK or Gstreamer.  Unfortunately this isn't universally followed and
while we can workaround that in packaging, it is not as easy. 

Rahul