[Nix-dev] Re: Boost libraries

[Peter Simons]

Hi Eelco,

 > There is now a variant that builds all the variants (and it's the
 > default for nix-env -i boost).

great, thank you very much!

I have a question, though. Assume that 'boostFull' is installed, i.e.
all Boost libraries are available in all variants. Now, the user
installs a package that depends on Boost, say Monotone, but the
expression depends on 'boost', not 'boostFull'. Does this mean that all
of Boost will be compiled again (and installed again) despite the fact
that all those libraries were in fact available to begin with?

Peter