[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM with Copy on Write (#1470)

[malmond77]

At the risk of going completely off topic (for this PR, but it is my PR):

One of the recommendations made by @pmatilai is that this code should (ultimately) be compiled against librpm and headers using the public API. I agree: the libs are the canonical implementation.

I'm concerned that re-implementing parts of rpm has the potential to double the surface area for bugs. I get that writing code in C is more difficult and error prone than other languages. Bugs are easy to accidentally reproduce. Other changes to librpm won't make it to other environments easily. I'm advocating for spending more time on improving this code base, and providing good wrappers instead of rewriting things.

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