On Wednesday, December 29, 2021 12:47:43 PM EST Gordon Messmer 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).
Not only cases where /usr is readonly, what about the case where /usr is on a
SSD because it should not be changing much? I have /var on a spinning disk
because by definition it is where things live that change frequently.
-Steve