[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: rpm without database (#1151)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> I have no insight to the other database formats so can't comment on how that is handled. For setups that never modify the running system but rather either prepare images or modify snapshots the transactional capabilities of rpm do not matter anyways. If anything goes wrong, no new snapshot/image gets produced.

But that's not even close to the common case that RPM is used for. Any feature added to RPM must be considered holistically useful and made relatively safe (within the context of RPM packaging management). Virtually everything is safe in the model of using installroots and snapshots, but most usage of RPM is on live systems, so that makes it difficult to justify this feature.

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