[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Move ~/.rpmmacros and ~/.rpmrc to ~/.config/rpm/ (PR #3750)

[Michal Domonkos]

dmnks left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#3750)

I'm a bit late to the party but here's my thoughts:

This seems like a bad idea to me. The amount of code this requires, plus the risk of missing one of those corner cases (did we really consider them *all*?), are all red flags for me. I'm of the opinion that one's `$HOME` directory shouldn't be messed with like this. More so if it's something that the user isn't aware of *before* it's done on their behalf.

There's also one scenario which I don't see mentioned here, which is [managing](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32253018) one's dotfiles with something like [GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html) (which I personally do). In such a case, I'd already have a symlink at `~/.rpmmacros` which points to my dotfiles.git repository somewhere else, which the automatic migration would break.

Yes, it would be nice if we could rely on there being a `~/.config/rpm` directory, but I don't see that as worth the risk, especially since we currently [don't have an actual need](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/3750#issuecomment-2890022227) for it.

[Currently](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/f24ca5eade57ebfafd3829aa6d4bfe5ab6f965be), we fall back to the legacy locations completely if just one of those files exists. Couldn't we make this fallback per-file instead? That way, no migration would be required and we could still benefit from having `~/.config/rpm` to ourselves for what we need.

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