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

[Julian Sikorski]

Hans de Goede pisze:
> 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
> 
Is the fact that bsnes uses patched snes_ntsc, and that the said patch
is not necessarily compatible with other apps using the lib a good
enough reason?

Julian