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Subject: Re: bundled libraries in ports, any policy?
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2014-08-05 14:25 GMT+02:00 Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>:

> Ren=C3=A9 Ladan ha scritto:
> > Although the above example is specific to Chromium, do we want a policy
> for
> > bundled libraries in general? For example, Fedora an Gentoo have a poli=
cy
> > that favors the use system libraries (what we call LIB_DEPENDS)
>
> Yes, we prefer always system/port libraries, if there aren't strong
> reasons to do otherwise (e.g. a highly customized bundled version)
>
> My preference too, should something be written in the Porters Handbook
about this?


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
[2] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies

Rene