Zebediah Figura zfigura@codeweavers.com writes:
I've spent the last couple of weeks asking Fedora [1], Debian [2], openSUSE [3], and Arch (private conversation with the maintainer). There is, perhaps unfortunately, a unanimous consensus among these that they would indeed like to see us use their packages, and to link dynamically rather than statically.
Thank you for doing this!
So I think we do want something like Rémi's solution, but on top of that I'd like to propose that we allow for using pre-built dynamic libraries where available.
Yes, it seems clear that we'll need our own solution anyway, so we should move ahead with that. It should be easy to preserve a way at least for developers to use distro packages instead of the bundled libs, so that we can experiment further. Making it seamless for end users can then be a long term goal.