Location of the pacman database

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To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Location of the pacman database
From: Yamakaky <yamakaky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:34:48 +0200
Reply-to: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi !

Why is the pacman local database location defaulted to /var/lib/pacman ?It should go in /usr as it reflects the installed packages and it isonly updated when a package is updated. If it where in /usr, it would beeasier to share the /usr partition between hosts.


What do you think ?

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