Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*

On 19 May 2016 at 17:25, M.A. van den Berg wrote:

I also like “sudo apt-get”, and I also like the it pulls in all the things you need and not having to worry about things, that’s exactly what I would love to see.

The Debian package manager however does not download the whole repository of all debian packages, instead it models package dependencies and download the dependency tree.

Debian's great. As far as I know, it's the only modularization of boost in use, and it's been working well for years, so I think it'd be a good model for us to base our efforts on. I suspect having a smaller number of modules helps usability as well.