Re: Proposal: Build System Change (autotools->mesonbuild)?

[Henri Verbeet]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 19:53, Simon Richter  wrote:
> Pulling in dependencies automatically is less of an interesting use case
> than you think. Most users will get Wine through their Linux distribution,
> and the very first thing distribution maintainers do is turn off all of
> that automation, and remove any copies of third-party libraries to avoid
> accidentally linking against them instead of the "official" version that
> receives security support.

I'm sure some people disagree with me, but in fact, that particular
kind of pulling in dependencies is something that I think should
actively be discouraged.

Henri