Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 04.06.08 09:14, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > >> The trouble was I had my systems pulse devel package installed and it >> didn't mess up the build when I tested it. When I submitted a patched >> mdv package to our build cluster (we enable --as-needed by default now) >> it spat out the error and I knew I had a problem and figured it out from >> there :) > > /me thinks --as-needed is a bad idea. A really bad idea. Not to try and go tooo far off topic for this list, but can you elaborate on why? We have a very annoying amount of problems with overlinking and bogus package dependences which is also a very bad idea :( To give a trivial example, deprecating xcb-xlib.so as the lastest git master does, required half the distro to be rebuild depsite none of the other packages directly using this library... Col
