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

[Andrea Musuruane]

2008/11/30 David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au>:
> 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 ?

I do think the packager should at least trace (e.g. in comments) which
system libraries are not used and why.

Regards,

Andrea.