diff --git a/nautilus.spec b/nautilus.spec
index dda1d23..c259243 100644
--- a/nautilus.spec
+++ b/nautilus.spec
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ autoreconf -i -f
 
 CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -g -DUGLY_HACK_TO_DETECT_KDE -DNAUTILUS_OMIT_SELF_CHECK" %configure --disable-more-warnings --disable-update-mimedb
 
+# drop unneeded direct library deps with --as-needed
+# libtool doesn't make this easy, so we do it the hard way
 sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0 /g' -e 's/    if test "$export_dynamic" = yes && test -n "$export_dynamic_flag_spec"; then/      func_append compile_command " -Wl,-O1,--as-needed"\n      func_append finalize_command " -Wl,-O1,--as-needed"\n\0/' libtool
 
 export tagname=CC