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> As this is a rather deep change, I'd like to hear your opinion. Is
> it fine to remove a whole directory with sources and to depend on a
> package instead?

Such major changes need to be tested on more than just one OS.
Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu have different package sets and commands
for installing/testing them, and Windows will certainly now need the
user to build this "extra" package manually.  Lots of documentation
will need to be touched as users bump into this, build scripts for
downstreams (rpm/deb spec files) will need to be edited, etc.

Having said that, I'm a fan of not copying libraries :-)