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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:43:24
Message-Id: 20140831134313.7c036b54@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information. by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:38:00 -0400
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3 > Not exactly. The point is to *standardize* what is meant by "all
4 > information" so that all package managers export the same minimum set
5 > of information. The most important being NEEDED.ELF.2 which is
6 > portage's VDB but not paludis. Also, it can be in any format and
7 > exported in any way so long as it is well documented. The goal is to
8 > have tools other than PM's make use of this information. The example
9 > that began this is revdep-pax which uses NEEDED.ELF.2 to trace out
10 > linking so as to migrate PaX flags between ELF objects.
11
12 VDB is completely non-standard, undocumented, and hard to read
13 correctly. There's no point in having information if you aren't allowed
14 to use it.
15
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17 Ciaran McCreesh

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