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

[Bill Davidsen]

David Timms wrote:
> 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.
>
Given that the libraries needed by Seamonkey *are* packaged with the auite, and 
have been for years, I'm not sure what guidelines you mean.

> 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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