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On 30-08-2014 16:02:51 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> ... During that meeting, the council focused on NEEDED.ELF.2 which is |
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> recorded by portage, but not paludis. Linkage information is generated |
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> during package builds, is expensive to recalculate and is needed by |
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> other packages like revdep-pax for PaX marking ELF objects. |
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Portage is able to calculate dependency information for |
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@preserved-rebuild based on the information stored in multiple files, |
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(NEEDED,) NEEDED.ELF.2, NEEDED.MACHO.3, NEEDED.XCOFF, NEEDED.PECOFF, etc. |
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For this purpose, it would be helpful if a generalised interface would |
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be exported, instead of the raw files (and their storage format |
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version). Portage, for instance, internally has a function that queries |
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for consumers of a specific library (file), abstracting away parts of |
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the shared library format internals, that otherwise would have to be |
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implemented by all tools. |
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Fabian |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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