[bug#28690] provide a lib output for boost

[Ludovic Courtès]

Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I'm happy to push this to core-updates.  What do we do with packages
>>> requiring boost:lib?   Do we just wait and see which builds fail on
>>> core-updates, and add `("boost" ,boost "lib") as an input where
>>> required?
>>
>> It would be ideal to identify them by building (some of) Boost’s direct
>> dependencies.  This can be done on master to avoid rebuilding the world,
>> and then pushed to core-updates.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> I don't know if it helps, or is well-known anyhow, but you can check the
> dependencies of any that are in Debian by looking under
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/<package>.

I don’t think it helps.  I suggest looking for the direct dependencies
of Boost in Guix, possibly using ‘guix refresh -l boost’.

Ludo’.