Re: (Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x - bundling external libraries

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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
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