[arch-general] Location of the pacman database

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:15:13PM +0200, Nowaker wrote:
> At this point /var/lib/pacman/local defines the current state of /usr.
> It's not "variable" - you write to /var/lib/pacman/local if and only if
> you write to /usr. The description of /usr on wiki perfectly describes
> why /var/lib/pacman/local really belongs there:

So, files in (now) /usr/lib/pacman/local contain filelists of packages, yes? If
you wipe /var, lots of packages will have missing files...

> - move /var/lib/pacman/local/ to /usr
> - move the default pacman.conf and mirrorlist to /usr/share
> - provide tmpfiles.d to copy those files to /etc

What about pacman keyring? Also note that your custom keys should be packaged
as well and resigned on-boot.

> If I'm not mistaken, /usr/share and tmpfiles.d are really trivial and
> wouldn't affect users in any way. That'd be a few additional files
> somewhere in the filesystem without any effect on existing machines. Or
> I'm wrong?

This is madness. I remember sometime ago there was a witchhunt against daemons
that write to /etc (cups is the worst offender). So why is it OK for systemd to
do so? I personally don't want systemd to come anywhere near my /etc. Please
package the tmpfiles.d/sysusers stuff with virtkick or whatever, but not with
pacman.

Cheers,
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Leonid Isaev
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