replacing included 3rd party libraries with system libraries

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi David,

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:38 -0700, David Herron wrote:  
> As Tom said, this is being considered for the XCB fix (to dlopen the
> xinerama library if it's on the system)

Where is this discussed?

> I remember seeing requests in some of the mailing lists for projects
> to do some of these:
> 
> <AWT Dev> [PATCHes] Allow using system's copies of libjpeg, libpng and
> giflib for splashscreen
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-June/000021.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-May/000000.html
> 
> Using system tzdata
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2007-August/000066.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2007-August/000001.html
> 
> Generally this kind of change should be proposed in the relevant group
> mailing list.

Thanks for the references. It is pretty hard to follow the overall
project with so many mailinglist (and imho none of them have enough
traffic to warrant being separate lists).

Cheers,

Mark