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docs: overview: Explicitly call out dpkg/rpm 

To be more clear that we don't handle "inventory".
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Colin Walters 2014-06-20 10:11:42 -04:00
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<emphasis>complete</emphasis> (bootable) filesystem trees. It
has no built-in knowledge of how a given filesystem tree was
generated or the origin of individual files, or dependencies,
descriptions of individual components. This means that, for
example, if you are distributing software which is licensed
under the GNU General Public License, the burden lies with the
tool generating these filesystem trees to ensure sufficent
metadata is included for compliance.
descriptions of individual components. Put another way, OSTree
only handles delivery and deployment; you will likely still want
to include inside each tree metadata about the individual
components that went into the tree. For example, a system
administrator may want to know what version of OpenSSL was
included in your tree, so you should support the equivalent of
<command>rpm -q</command> or <command>dpkg -L</command>.
</para>
<para>
The OSTree core emphasizes replicating read-only OS trees via