finding out about (system) dependencies

[Tom Marble]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> A whole bunch of system libraries are tried to load using dlopen, instead of
> linking against these libraries. Is this a leftover windowism, or expected
> behaviour? [...]
I suspect this has been done, among other reasons, to reduce
startup time and memory footprint.

> so I assume these dependencies have to be managed manually as long as the
> libraries are not linked against the system libraries?
Probably.  And to the extent we can collaborate between the distros
(e.g. Debian, Fedora, Gentoo...) system library package names and
dependency graphs that would be fantastic.

Regards,

--Tom