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