> On Dec 1, 2016, at 17:07, Sean Farley <s...@farley.io> wrote:
> 
> Augie Fackler <r...@durin42.com> writes:
> 
>>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 08:53, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Fedora guidelines: All packages whose upstreams allow them to be built 
>>> against system libraries must be built against system libraries.
>>> 
>>> So if zstd could become a standard system library it would have to be 
>>> unbundled.
>> 
>> That should be possible some day, but today we're depending on an as-yet 
>> unstable API that requires static linking against a specific version of the 
>> library. Is that sufficient to prevent unbundling for now?
> 
> Well, that's problematic for me since I've already added zstd as a
> system lib in MacPorts (under the, I believe, fair assumption) that this
> would be easy to override and link against.

It won't hurt anything to have it there, it just won't help you until zstd 
stabilizes their API and we can get on the stable API.

It was a fair assumption, except for all the discussion both here and on 
indygreg's patches which made it clear that it wasn't ;)
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