[gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.

[Anthony G. Basile]

Hi everyone,

I've written a GLEP which outlines a standard for what information 
should be stored by any package management systems (PMS) in /var/db/pkg 
(VDB) and mandates some API for exporting it to other tools [1].  The 
need to do so was discussed in the Council during the 20130910 meeting 
[2].  During that meeting, the council focused on NEEDED.ELF.2 which is 
recorded by portage, but not paludis. Linkage information is generated 
during package builds, is expensive to recalculate and is needed by 
other packages like revdep-pax for PaX marking ELF objects.

I've aimed to make the GLEP open to how each PMS team wants to implement 
this without being too vague.  We should also consider carefully the 
list of items we want cached although we could always update this list 
later.

Feedback welcome.

Ref
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:64
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130910-summary.txt

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