http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037126 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037126#c3 --- Comment #3 from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> --- Well, we already deviate in half of Geeko land. The first maxime is therefore to make it behave equal again across SUSE products. Secondarily is to have a look at what other distros do, and evaluate whether to go with the not-upstream-default behavior. Besides Debian, it would appear that Gentoo also has as-needed enabled. as-needed is one of many strategies to drop unnecessary dependencies and to also find programming errors due to effects of link order sensitiviy (missing libs, etc.). I anecdotally remember solaris ld being link-order-sensitive (but not as-needy) too, so that's that. In other words, it just helps me and others make somewhat better software. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.