On 26-07-2010 22:29:06 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Starting today all applications emerged on your system are linked > together with additional LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed". This option > allows us to avoid linking extra libraries into the final binary > improving startup times and more importantly making binaries more > resistant to a library SONAME changes [1].
While this is sort of the end result, I'd suggest making a more correct statement here, like "and more importantly possibly reducing breakage of binaries and libraries after a library SONAME changes". -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
