| complete |
This is the libuuid-standard metapackage.
It pulls in all subpackages of libuuid-standard. |
| primary |
The UUID library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects
that may be accessible beyond the local system. This library
generates UUIDs compatible with those created by the Open Software
Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility
uuidgen.
The UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be
unique within a system, and unique across all systems. They could
be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
of a name clash.
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| tools |
This package contains the uuidgen tool.
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| dev |
This is the developer subpackage of the libuuid-standard port.
It may contain headers, pc files, static and PIC libraries and SO links. |
| man |
This is the man page subpackage of the libuuid-standard port. |