On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > Things we can do are to write down our justifications for doing this, > letting upstream know that it isn't just one distribution that feels > this way, offering to help upstreams code alternatives, offering to help > forward port applications to new versions of libraries, and getting best > practice recommendations changed to reflect this (for instance, this > recommendation is made on the Mono site: > http://www.mono-project.com/Assemblies_and_the_GAC#Libraries_with_Unstable_APIs > )
A few months ago, Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò started tinderboxing to find all packages in portage which were using static/internal libraries. You might be interested in the packages that he found[1]. He's been doing a lot of work on this front :) 1. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251464 -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
