* Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org [120211 02:50]:
But sometimes an innocent call to library causing package to inherit the whole
hierarchy of needless dependencies.
And this affect not just obvious things like slower start-up and installation
Once one library is actually needed, the
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On 02/10/2012 01:17 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Dear mentors,
I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using
--as-needed.
The --as--needed flag is automatically added to package builds in
Ubuntu. If you do not want your package to fail
* Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@bregmasoft.ca, 2012-02-10, 07:12:
I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using --as-needed.
The --as--needed flag is automatically added to package builds in
Ubuntu. If you do not want your package to fail to build from source
(and thus not be
* Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org [120210 07:18]:
Because in their eyes I have neither expertise nor reputation I couldn't
convince them that benefits are outweight risks. (--as-needed removes dozen of
packages from Depends)
I've been asked to provide a document or a quote from
Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org writes:
I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using --as-needed.
Recently I tried to convince two package maintainers to use --as-needed
in order to reduce overlinking. Surprisingly this time this idea was
opposed with great resistance as
The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems,
IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not
be fixed any time soon.
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Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems,
IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be
fixed any time soon.
Which in most cases they won't be. Hell, I'm an upstream maintainer for
one case where *I'm*
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:15:22 Bernhard R. Link wrote:
I personally strongly recommend against using --as-needed unless you
understand very well what it does. It may change the runtime behaviour of a
program without any signs at link time.
Surely it's a powerful thing which should be used with
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:23 Paul Wise wrote:
The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems,
IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not
be fixed any time soon.
Seems like a typical case with GNOME project stuff.
Do you know if there are
Dear mentors,
I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using --as-needed.
Recently I tried to convince two package maintainers to use --as-needed in
order to reduce overlinking. Surprisingly this time this idea was opposed with
great resistance as none of maintainers but me had
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