On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > Hi! > > I'm packaging kchmviewer, which uses a version of chmlib bundled > in the upstream tarball. > > Is it a Bad Thing to use that library instead of depending on the > official packaged one? Yes(TM), it is a Bad Thing(TM). If the official library is suitable, then use it. It will: - absolve you of providing security support for the duplicate code - make the resulting binary packages fewer or smaller - save space on end user systems and repository mirror sites -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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