Bug#379748: information about unused direct dependencies and --as-needed in LDFLAGS

[Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de>]

Package: developers-reference
Severity: wishlist

hi,

i just asked myself why we do not make use of --as-needed. While
searching the web i ended up with the following Blog entries by Ulrich
Drepper, which do pretty well explain when to use --as-needed and in
which cases it leads to problems:

 http://udrepper.livejournal.com/10946.html
 http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11056.html

it might be handy to have this information covered within the developers
reference somewhere.

bye,
    - michael