On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the basic guidelines we have in Fedora is that a package should > not link against a local copy of a library. Instead libraries should be > included in the system and applications should link against that.[1]_ >
We have the same policy on Gentoo too (I guess that most distros do). > I'd like to know if other distributions also consider separating > libraries from applications to be a best practice. If so, would you be > willing to collaborate on getting upstreams to see our point of view? If a package needs changes to link against a system library, we usually patch it and send the patch upstream along with an explanation of the problem. I think that should continue being the main method to raise upstream awareness. However, if anyone has good ideas about extra things we can do together, that's welcome. Regards, -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
