Re: New top-level dir: /state [WAS: Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change] proposal)

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On Friday, 14 January 2022 at 00:05, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:45 AM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Given the choice, I prefer rpm only touches /usr, which includes
> > /usr/var and /usr/etc.
> 
> I must say that, of all the bad suggestions in the multiple threads
> this proposal has spawned, I dislike using "/usr/var/" the least.
> 
> The path "/usr/lib/sysimage/rpm" does look very out-of-place in
> non-image-based systems, so *if* we want to move the rpmdb to a place
> that's consistent across all our Editions, it should also be a
> location name that makes sense across all Editions.
> 
> A path that contains "sysimage" conveys to me that this is somehow
> only related to image based variants. Something under /usr/var would
> at least be an generic, non-confusing path.

+1 to that. /usr/lib/sysimage is definitely a non-obvious location for
rpmdb, while /usr/var/lib at least suggests it's something akin to
/var/lib.

Regards,
Dominik
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