Closed hasufell closed 11 years ago
Thank you for your advice. We are bundling those libraries because we ran into a few cases where players did not have the library, or had an incompatible version of it.
We will not dilute our energy trying to support each distribution with their packaging systems and byzantine rules, so we decided to bundle. While some of your arguments are valid concerns, we have determined that it is better for the project to keep the current setup.
That can lead to distros dropping your software in case it is causing security trouble.
Besides, the jpeg version is ancient. That has nothing to do with incompatibility. It's just bitrot.
Sounds like a risk we're willing to take then. I shudder at the possibility.
Cool, while users will have to take that risk too (wrt to security).
Reasons why bundling is not preferred: