On 07/10/10 20:07, Mason wrote: > Is anyone aware of any potential issue when using Mozilla's private > libcairo on Fedora 13? Fedora packaging guidelines [1] prevents bundling external libraries. Main reason [2] is that security and bug fixes should be fixed in the one library, and hence fix all applications against that issue. If there was no such policy, then it would essentially be impossible to fix any security issue against the library, because it becomes hidden in N application binaries.
There is also a memory use improvement by using shared libraries. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
