[Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/26/2017 11:35 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 08:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level
>>> directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage or such
>>
>> I'm OK with /usr/lib/sysimage.
> 
> Would we want to store the rpmdb directly to /usr/lib/sysimage or have it in it's own subdir, eg
> /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm

It's clipped out in the above quote, but this is what I originally said:

> I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top
> level directory in /usr seems too much then maybe > /usr/lib/sysimage
> or such (and then rpm/rpmdb under that) would be a reasonable
> compromise.


> 
> My feeling would be to prefer the latter

Yes, because the whole point here is that the rpmdb is not the only data 
of this type. I keep repeating that but nobody seems to read what I say.

	- Panu -

> Regards,
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