embedded libmagic (from file)

Hi, [I have searched the list and no relevant answer came up, only one unanswered question (*)] I would like to ask whether there is a strong reason to have customized libmagic in the source tree as the only option. I saw the discussion that you want to have embedded magic database, but still I would like to have an option to use system libmagic if available. This is similar to libgd, etc. I know your reasoning and I respect that decision, but still the needs of distributions (and need for longterm security support) raises this as an issue which would be better solved by using system-wide libmagic library. I could hack fileinfo module myself, but I feel that this effort would be better coordinated with upstream if possible. What are your thoughts? Ondrej * - http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=117198246420629&w=2 -- Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>