Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:48 PM Gordon Messmer
<gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/29/21 07:26, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > On 29/12/2021 16:01, Ben Cotton wrote:
> >> Currently, the RPM databases is located in `/var`. Let's move it to
> >> `/usr`. The move is already under way in rpm-ostree-based
> >> installations, and in (open)SUSE.
> >
> > It will break FHS compatibility. /usr must contain read-only data.
>
>
> If /usr really is read-only, then it probably doesn't matter where the
> rpmdb is, since packages can't be installed (generally).

There are plenty of packages which do not write to /usr/, especially
third party add-ons over in /opt/ .
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