[Rpm-ecosystem] rpm -> lua -> ncurses

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/26/2016 10:27 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> Do any RPM users fix this somehow?  I tried reading the
> current OpenEmbedded-Core code, and it looks like they
> do build with Lua off, and presumably don't rely on it
> on their generated packages.

rpm should embed a fixed version of Lua (probably 5.1) because upgrading 
Lua breaks old package scriptlets, which is extremely bad for developers.

The embedded version of Lua can be built in such a way that it does not 
pull in any additional external dependencies.

Florian