On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:36:33 +0100
RĂ©mi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Newbie idea : g++ and boost both provide virtual/tr1
> 
> Newbie question : besides the fact that you would have to rebuild 
> packages if you changed the virtual, is there anything painfully
> obvious why that would be a bad idea ?

And what exactly is required of a package providing virtual/tr1? If it
has to implement the entirity of the TR, then g++-4.1 can't provide the
virtual and the purpose is lost since the most used parts of the
extension will be those provided by GCC. If, on the other hand, you
require the virtual to provide only the parts currently implemented in
g++, what happens in the future for packages that require other parts
of the tr1 extension?

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