On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:48:46AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
And this would be on EVERYBODY's database whether you use the feature or not, also slowing down every single rpm query somewhat as a whole lot more data has to be pulled from disk, and there's no way to get rid of the weight once its there. The height of the insult is that the data is essentially useless in the rpmdb, it's only relevant during installation, for the (presumably few) people who actually enable the feature. And of course that extra weight in every single package is carried around in mirrors and each and every package download too, again whether you use the feature or not.
It seems like having this in a separate database that is pulled down on demand would basically solve the problem.