[jcelerier]

> I can imagine that this could be problematic for other software though, especially ones that normally ship with the disto.

why would it be an issue ? that's how pretty much every software does on Windows and most certainly people can agree that things are much more sane there for the end-users

[steerablesafe]

This is not a technical issue. But if you aim for the software to be packaged in official distro repositories, they possibly don't want you to have other backported dependencies, such as a new version of libstdc++, or you to vendor in those libraries.