On Friday, 14 January 2022 at 00:05, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:45 AM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> 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 -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
