Reduced link interface - now for real

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Wed Dec 3 17:55:28 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:17:36AM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one question to the packagers: do we need the reduced link interface also 
> for "internal" shared libraries, e.g. libraries within kdebase, as e.g. 
> libkonq, or libkopete in kdenetwork ?
> I mean, there are only few applications which link to these libraries, and 
> actually no application outside the respective module should link to these 
> libraries, so these dependencies don't spread very wide.
> 
> So, do we want it also for these internal shared libs ?
> 
> Alex

libkopete is not an internal shared library. It's installed and used by plugins
which link to it so we probably need the reduced link interface for it.
--
Matt



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