zstd and Mercurial packaging

[Sean Farley]

Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> writes:

>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 08:53, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Fedora guidelines: All packages whose upstreams allow them to be built against system libraries must be built against system libraries.
>> 
>> So if zstd could become a standard system library it would have to be unbundled.
>
> That should be possible some day, but today we're depending on an as-yet unstable API that requires static linking against a specific version of the library. Is that sufficient to prevent unbundling for now?

Well, that's problematic for me since I've already added zstd as a
system lib in MacPorts (under the, I believe, fair assumption) that this
would be easy to override and link against.