[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: script plugin API (#1377)

[Panu Matilainen]

We should add support for Lua script plugin API, loosely modeled around our C API. Not everything can be done from Lua, but then not everything needs to be in C either. This would lower the bar to implementing plugins in the right layer (as opposed to eg dnf) greatly and open up all sorts of new possibilities. Some of the necessary infrastructure for such hooks exists in rpm already, unused for 15+ years (rpmio/rpmhook.[hc]).

Good ole apt-rpm had an extensive scripting API which can be used as a source of inspiration as well: http://apt-rpm.org/scripting.shtml

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