collection container

Has boost any plans on creating container, that holds data by pointer, not by value? Rationale: It is impossible to use normally vector<...> for types that do not have copy constructor. Interface of vector< shared_ptr<...> > doesn't seems to be very convenient( for example with std::algorithms ). And most of all it is not good idea to show vector< shared_ptr<...> > interface to user of my lib, that wants to have container::iterator with normal behavior. AFAIK majority of existing libraries have/need such container ? As to me it is strange that neither stl nor boost have such class. I'm missing 'something' and there are important reasons for not doing this ?