On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:48 PM Gordon Messmer
<gordon.messmer(a)gmail.com> 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/ .