Removing references to unused libs

[Remenic]

Over at www.osnews.com there was a topic on GNOME getting more optimization in the future. Someone pointed out that many GNOME libraries (but not just GNOME libraries) have unused library dependancies.

I have noticed before that this indeed happens (I believe I even posted a topic on it), but it appears that one can now check which programs and libraries have unnused dependancies.

The command is:

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ldd -u -r <paths>

Now, I am wondering if there's some sort of post-process command that removes these unnused dependancies. This would decrease memory usage, and increase startup times. Two very interesting features, if you ask me.

[Remenic]

Am I asking this in the wrong forum perhaps?

I can't believe that there wouldn't be a way to 're-link' ELF binaries and shared objects so they only reference to libraries they actually need.