On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 03:09 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:53:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le vendredi 01 avril 2005 à 02:34 -0600, Ron Johnson a écrit : > > > What are the opinions of d-d's of --as-needed? > > > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17287 > > > > According to this thread, the number of dependencies can sometimes > > > be slashed drastically. > > > I'm moving all my packages to use it. > > Please don't. Last I knew, this option was still labelled *experimental* > upstream -- there's no possible damage that stray lib dependencies can do to > sarge that competes with the certain damage of having *missing* library > dependencies.
And since these are (always?) dependencies on shared objects, these libraries never get used, except to say, "Here I am!", right? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Capitalism needs a culture of shame to work properly. Paraphrased from Victor David Hansen, seen on CSPAN 2004-03-07
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