Yes, all valid/good points, thanks. We are packaging external libraries that we need ourselves (libmysqlclinet was "fun" -- it is actually a C-library with C++

Yes, all valid/good points, thanks. We are packaging external libraries that we need ourselves (libmysqlclinet was "fun" -- it is actually a C-library with C++ implementation details). And getting some "critical mass" of packages done by us is also something we are considering.