From: aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM   
      
   On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:56:50 -0400, Arthur Hagen  wrote:   
      
      
   >I just completed upgrading three systems to gnome 2.18, and all other stable   
   >upgrades.  However, now it seems like linking pulls in every fsking lib on   
   >the system, whether needed or not?  In particular, this becomes a big   
   >problem because one of the libs that gets pulled in libGL.so.1, doesn't   
   >exist as a PIC executable, and this means that prelink breaks, hardened   
   >breaks (plus the overhead of having to pull in bunches of libraries that   
   >aren't used at all).   
      
   >Do anyone know of a way to get the old functionality back, where only the   
   >libraries that are needed for a package gets linked, instead of linking   
   >against everything and its dog?   
      
   Useflags control which packages are dependencies.  It is up to the individual   
   packages how they are linked.  However, if their ./configure script don't call   
   for a particular feature, then that feature won't get linked.   
      
   Do an 'emerge -pv' on the package in question and make sure you don't have any   
   useflags calling in unwanted features.  Sometimes you have to have a negative   
   use flag in your make.conf to get rid of something -- the default w/ no   
   use flag is a positive.   
      
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