On Saturday, 08 July 2017 at 17:24, Ville Skyttä wrote: [...] > If the bundled version corresponds to an upstream release to an extent that > it can be called that version, and checks like the discussed one could be > skipped just by looking at the version label, then it must be practically > the same. So why is it bundled in the first place? There can be many reasons: copylibs, no upstream support for building as shared library, no stable API/ABI, etc. Many of them are listed on the wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries_Virtual_Provides Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
