The reason I'm interested in this is the idea I meantioned yesterday, about generalizing Carmack's "if it's mostly functional try to make it all the way functional" to "if it's almost [a thing] make it all the way [the thing] and the known benefits of [thing] suddenly appear for free.
The ELF format is almost a database. Know what else is almost a database? Debs. RPMs.
And if an SQLite file is an executable, then DEB control files or RPM package labels are just a tiny table you add later.
mhoye
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2026-08-30 12:54:16 UTC
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