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+This is a fork of gentoo's `dev-db/sqlite` package. The main
+reasons for having our fork are:
+
+1. Even in case of sqlite >= 3.32.0, we still need to keep conditions to
+   distinguish full archive from non-full archive. Main reason for that is
+   because it is not possible to build sqlite from its full archive (i.e.
+   "-src"), which depends `dev-lang/tcl`. Either we need to make
+   `dev-lang/tcl` available in the Flatcar SDK, or we need to bring back
+   the ability of dealing with its non-full archive. (i.e. "-autoconf")
+   While the former is ideal way to go in the future, it will require
+   additional updates in the SDK-only release. The latter is easier for
+   us to resolve the on-going security issues in the short term.