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Peter Volkov wrote:
| Is there any reason why --as-needed is not enabled "by default"?

There's still about 18 open bugs on the tracker[1] for it.  You can see
how many problems it had been causing by the huge number of blocking bugs.

I've been using it for a pretty long time now (probably a couple weeks
after Diego first blogged about it) and don't have many problems at all
(now), but every once in a while a version bump or a new package will
just fail to compile properly and the problem leads back to as-needed.
I'm not sure whether ~arch users would be able to catch all the
as-needed bugs before they hit stable, so I couldn't say whether it
should be enabled by default or not.

I also don't think it would completely eliminate the problems that Diego
mentioned with preserve-libs (there could still be instances where bar
and foo both NEEDED thing.so, but bar had been compiled more recently
and needed thing.so.1 whilst foo needed thing.so.0, and starting bar
would break trying to load both)...

Mike  5:)

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129413
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