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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> On 27 May 2010 20:37, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Squeak was recently removed from Gentoo Linux Ebuilds because of security issues in our bundled plugins:
>>>
>>>        http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247363
>>>
>>> While it is convenient for us to bundle external library sources, package maintainers do not like that practice. Is there anything we can realistically do about it?
>>>
>> Here's my argument:
>>
>> These libraries are bundled, because Squeak VM could be built on a
>> system which having no such libraries provided by default.
>> To ensure bit-identical behavior on all platforms, Squeak developers
>> cannot rely on a platform-specific versions of these libraries,
>> because they can vary from one system to another.
>>
>
> If they're not there by default, you can still link dynamically to the
> libraries and provide them with squeak. Also, if the libraries
> provided by the distribution have the same major version as the one
> you use, you can expect compatibility, and profit from the regular
> updates.
>