bundled libraries in ports, any policy?

[René Ladan]

2014-08-05 14:25 GMT+02:00 Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org>:

> René 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 policy
> > 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