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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:38:00 -0400 |
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"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> Not exactly. The point is to *standardize* what is meant by "all |
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> information" so that all package managers export the same minimum set |
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> of information. The most important being NEEDED.ELF.2 which is |
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> portage's VDB but not paludis. Also, it can be in any format and |
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> exported in any way so long as it is well documented. The goal is to |
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> have tools other than PM's make use of this information. The example |
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> that began this is revdep-pax which uses NEEDED.ELF.2 to trace out |
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> linking so as to migrate PaX flags between ELF objects. |
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VDB is completely non-standard, undocumented, and hard to read |
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correctly. There's no point in having information if you aren't allowed |
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to use it. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |