package review: Is it a must to use system libraries ?

[Hans de Goede]

David Timms wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on review of bsnes [1]. One of the issues raised 
> before I began was the upstream source includes some libraries, some of 
> which are already packaged and included in either fedora or rpmfusion.
> 
> Since I'm not an experienced packager or reviewer, if there are other 
> reviewers who believe further work should be done on the "use system 
> libraries" item, can you please speak up now ?
> 

Unless there are strong reasons not to use the system versions, all libraries 
used should be system versions. If there are strong reasons not to this should 
be documented case by case with comments in the spec file.

Regards,

Hans