On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 02:10:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
It breaks libguestfs. It also breaks basic stuff like "what is
installed in this container?" "Is this file owned by RPM?" "Has
this
file been modified?" I think deleting the RPM database is broken, and
tools that do this should be corrected.
Rich.
That is not going to happen, because people doing it do not care about any of that in the
slightest, and have very different needs. And that's ok, your requirements != everyone
else's. And as mentioned already, dracut does exactly that for initrds in Fedora.