On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:26:49AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 2010/3/21 Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.ru>:
> > Give me a good reason, with examples, why we should change the default.
> > There was a good reason for --as-needed - extra dependencies and extra
> > lookup costs.  I see no good reason for --no-copy-dt-needed-entries.
> 
> gold(1) behaves that way by default. AFAIK, Fedora goes to switch to it later.
> So it's one of step of switching.

So a good reason to change the default is because of Fedora.  Because
they are going to change it, too!  Just not yet.  Maybe next week.

But as far as I know, Fedora did never enable --as-needed by default.
This makes a difference.