On Mi, 27.10.21 14:00, Fedora Development ML (devel@lists.fedoraproject.org) 
wrote:

> Sorry, but I do not see what is "baseless" about the licensing issue (see
> also the further details I added above). And the idea is not to "force
> people to stop using" stuff, but to not spend time making it easier to do
> inherently bad things such as redistributing binaries ripped from a package
> or deleting the RPM database, at the expense of added bloat for everyone.

I vehemently disagree with you that deleting RPM databases was a bad
thing. You too run a system with no RPM database – all the time, and
that thing still calls itself Fedora: a dracut initrd is exactly
that: built from RPMs but without any RPM db.

Thing is, there are different ways to update stuff. rpm/dnf is one
thing, dracut image rebuilds is another, containers are typically
updated very differently too. rpm is a useful tool (and by embedding
rpm meta info into the ELF objects it becomes even stronger), but your
assumption that rpm/dnf based updates is the only right way to upgrade
stuff is simply neither reality nor even desirable.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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