On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Jan Kurik wrote:
> The use of the "--as-needed" flag allows the linker to avoid linking
> extra libraries in a binary. This not only improves startup times (as
> the loader does not have to load all the libraries for every step) but
> might avoid the full initialization of big frameworks.

This might reduce auto-generated dependencies, too, right? Generally
that's a good thing, but of course there's always the off chance that
something that someone expects to be there because it was always pulled
into an install by a dep now won't be....

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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