On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:02:51 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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 problem isn't what the information is. It's the format. > 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. This isn't relevant to ebuilds. > 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. This isn't a specification... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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