> just because I link one of my libraries with libssl doesn't mean I want every single source file and library I create in my project to then be linked with ssl

> just because I link one of my libraries with libssl doesn't mean I want every single source file and library I create in my project to then be linked with ssl Is this because you want to guarantee that all libraries have the dependencies explicitly defined? If nothing in that library is used, I don't think it has an effect on the output. Honestly just curious, bc it sounds like a pain to declare different sets of libraries inside the same project.