On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:19:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > 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 - save someone's memory from loading another library Cause usually they're linking it statically which is another Bad Thing(TM). regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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