[Nix-dev] Re: Boost libraries

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/4/7 Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to>:
> For me personally, the removal of 1.37.0 is not a problem, so I don't
> care much about the issue, really, but still I'd like to point out that
> developer packages like Boost can very well be "in use" by users of Nix
> without being referenced as a dependency in nix-pkgs.
Well, nix will keep your working copy of boost for development.
If you want to build a derivation with the derivation of an older
boost, you should write an expression for that, maybe in ~/.nixpkgs.

That's how I understand...

Regards,
Lluís.