I make a quick test on openSUSE 10.3, not sure about how it's in Factory but I don't see a better mailing list. I just run "ldd -u -r /usr/bin/*" and... the list is big!!! Someone has looked the problem in detail? Is memory usage or startup time notably increased because of this? In any case these unused direct dependencies, even if they are indirect dependencies, end like *unneeded* "requires" in RPM metadata, correct? What impact have them in metadata size and resolver time? There are some cases where the number is *really* high. $ readelf -d /usr/bin/vumeter | grep NEEDED | wc -l 61 $ ldd -u -r /usr/bin/vumeter | wc -l 53 Note that I have no idea what vumeter is, it's just a random example I saw it in the list. There are easy solutions? I suppose that if right now all packages aren't built with -Wl,--as-needed is because that would break a lot of things. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org