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Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o> posted 4841A7DA.7060605@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sat, 31 May 2008 20:32:42 +0100: |
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> I think you're looking for the wrong things. I'm not an expert, but I |
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> think --as-needed means that if there are 20 libraries on your system |
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> that use libexpat.so.0 and 400 programs that use those 20 libraries, |
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> when libexpat is updated to libexpat.so.1, you only need to rebuild the |
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> 20 libraries, not all 420 packages (as you would do otherwise). I |
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> believe that's the main reason for using as-needed... |
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That has certainly been my experience. I've had way less rebuilds to |
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worry about since I added that to my LDFLAGS and rebuilt the system. |
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revdep-rebuild -p, which I run regularly after major world upgrades, |
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returns far fewer packages to rebuild, now. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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