Re: vlc 2.0

Arnaldo Russo <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:49:25 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>
> I upgraded libxcb to 1.7 in rhel6 and F12 and so far so good (sonames are
> the same).
> Fedora rules are against static links, but on the other I am
> upgrading a core package.

Yes, that's exactly the reason why I chose to include xcb statically in vlc
2.0, I think upgrading a core RHEL library like xcb is quite risky and far
less desireable than breaking the no-static-libs rule.