Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > > What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? > > > > The answer is mainly unwanted libraries being linked in as a result > > of using pkg-config (and various other -config variants), though there > > are other, lesser, culprits. The pkg-config .pc files for gtk, gnome > > and other libraries add in many libraries, most of which aren't > > typically needed. > > > > The solution: fix the .pc files! > > > > Using --as-needed is merely papering over the actual root problem. > > It "fixes" the symptoms, but it's not addressing the actual cause. > > The number of packages providing broken .pc files is not large, and > > the number breaking due to relying on this brokenness is likely > > just as small. > > I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. > > Check out http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml > > --as-needed has saved tons of time for upgrades like Cairo in Gentoo, > where Cairo had been linked to glitz which is now useless and gone.
Not a problem, if Cairo was properly exposing the dep. > So > when people upgraded Cairo, all the software that linked against it > (and also unnecessarily linked against glitz) Why did it get linked against glitz? That's where the problem is. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101116011555.gt6...@const.famille.thibault.fr
