On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:34 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > we've looked at this; one of the problems is that this needs to be a per > package thing; there are valid setups where --as-needed breaks (eg apps > that have plugins can break). What kind of stuff do they do that breaks? I assume that apps that use dlopen() have error checking for it. Are we talking about weak-linking here or something? (weak linking AIUI == ld not resolving symbols until they are actually used) Dan