On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:37 -0400, David Nalley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A number of PHP web applications have the nasty habit of bundling > libraries with their packages. > > Upstream's logic for doing so (that shared hosting might not have > access to all of the libraries in question and leave the user with no > way to install the libraries) at least seems plausible at first > glance. > > However, the question I bring is how best to deal with these, at least > two options jump out at me: > > 1. Patch source to point to the library installed on the system rather > than the bundled > OR > 2. symlink from the bundled location to the system library. > > #1 strikes me as cleaner, but also more difficult to maintain. > > #2 strikes me as dead easy, but also a bit more hackish. > > I've talked to several people individually, and none knew of a > preference, hence I beg the wisdom of the list. Ideally, #0: explain the situation to upstream and have them ship an alternative version. This is done, for instance, for roundcubemail, which has a 'full-fat' download with copies of libraries included, and a 'dependent' download which doesn't include any dependencies and is set to look for system wide copies. Naturally, distributions use the 'dependent' tarball. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
