[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Vacuum the sqlite rpmdb if necessary (PR #3452)

[AnonymousCoward128746]

@pmatilai, this is great and I look forward to having it bundled with my distro of choice. As I wrote in https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/2002, I've been using `rpm --rebuilddb` to do this. I'm not sure if it also does a VACCUM or something else, but I do know that rebuilding the DB with that command can take a while.

I'm concerned about introducing a sluggish cleanup operation into everyday package management operations,  randomly. Users may respond negatively and perceive it as a regression or generally as bad performance by RPM. 

Imagine for example that some automated flow (like right at the end of a docker image build) puts the db just at the tipping point. The next install the user issues to install the latest version of the `true` command, will send the system into a DB rebuild, and wtf might ensue.

Doesn't this make more sense as a cron job by distros? how do major distros usually handle periodic cleanup jobs like this?

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