On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:13 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:07 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:44 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > * avoid redundant libaries in apps > > > (for example most gnome apps right now have 2 XML libraries loaded and > > > in use) > > > > Lots of GNOME apps/libraries (and probably many other things as well) > > link to libraries that they don't actually use (try "ldd -r - > > u /usr/bin/*" some time). It'd be nice to get rid of those. > > > > Also, some libraries/apps don't actually link to libraries that they > > need and work purely by luck at the moment. > > > > i.e. appA requires libL. libL requires symbols from libM, but doesn't > > link to it. appA also requires libM, so libL happens to work. > > > > Even worse, occasionally appA doesn't actually require libM, but has to > > link to it anyway to make libL work. > > yep this is exactly what I meant but explained far better ;) Ah. I thought you meant that things were using both libxml2 and SAX in different parts of the app, or something to that effect. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
