| 24 Feb 2025 |
 emily | I assume that this is another case of the flake packaging making assumptions about / having infrastructure for things that don't apply to nixpkgs | 19:42:44 |
| 25 Feb 2025 |
 tobim | building compiled boost libraries independently is easy, but we'd have to fix all the consumers that don't use *.pc files for the compiler args. At least the autoconf macros for boost can't deal with separate prefixes, and I suspect the *.cmake setup installed by boost will also cause quite some trouble. We should get https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/370251 finished (I need to rebase...) which is a step in the right direction. | 10:23:21 |
| emily | yes, I was thinking of your Python PR when you wrote that :) I think we can still maintain compatibility for projects that can't handle a split boost: we can keep an umbrella boost library that just symlinks everything | 13:23:55 |
