On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 5:18 AM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > 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.... >
This has actually been the default in Mageia for quite a long time, since the times of Mandriva. We even have a wiki page describing the problems of overlinking[1]. [1]: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Overlinking_issues_in_packaging -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X2URWLQRPB5HQ4RQWUYPM3LJ4VTVL2LL/
