Quoting Dmitry Smirnov (2016-05-19 06:45:36)
> On Monday, 10 February 2014 11:56:48 AM AEST Scott Howard wrote:
>> At some point we should move to system libraries and help bitcoin 
>> developers with the appropriate tests and mechanisms so they can 
>> trust system libraries as well. I don't think we are at that point 
>> yet.
>
> I think it is not about trust. It would be crazy to build private 
> version of let's say MySQL and let Litecoin to link it statically. As 
> far as I'm aware Litecin just stores raw key/value data without any 
> advanced features like triggers or stored procedures. They could have 
> used file system to store that (although it probably wouldn't be very 
> efficient). Therefore there is a little risk of using system LevelDB 
> library that at least runs its own post- build tests suite on every 
> re-build.
>
> I have no confidence in upstream ability to effectively track updates 
> in bundled libraries.
>
> I hope it makes sense.

I perfectly agree, and am happy for the comment on this bugreport 
drawing my attention to it.

 - Jonas

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