Uniting to get upstreams to use system libraries

[Andreas Jaeger]

Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> I'd like to know if other distributions also consider separating
> libraries from applications to be a best practice.  If so, would you be
> willing to collaborate on getting upstreams to see our point of view?

This is policy in openSUSE as well.  Please contact the
opensuse-packagers mailing list (see lists.openSUSE.org for info) to
reach out to the package maintainers for colloboration,

Andreas
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