From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2012-11-18T05:19:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49498] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7375] embedding libyaml in psych for Ruby 2.0

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 03:23:49AM +0900, jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) wrote:
> 
> Issue #7375 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).
> vo.x (Vit Ondruch) wrote:
> > I hope this proposal will be rejected. Here are some reasons:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
> > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies
> > 
> > And here are policies regarding bundling for several Linux distributions. All of them forbids bundling
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Bundling_of_multiple_projects
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
> > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Bundling_of_multiple_projects
> 
> There are two fairly easy ways to fix that, hopefully Aaron will choose one of them:
> 
> 1) Default to using the system implementation if present, using the embedded one only if no system implementation is found.
> 2) Default to using the embedded implementation, but have a separate configure flag for using the system implementation.
> 
> I'd prefer 1), since it doesn't change things for existing packagers, while making it easier on other people who build ruby from source.

#1 seems totally reasonable.  I could do that pretty easily. :-)

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Aaron Patterson
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