Hi,
I was discussing containerization and making RPMs more declarative with 
Aleksandra Fedorova, and she suggested I ask here and mention Zbigniew 
Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
It sounds like there's already some effort to make tasks in RPMs like adding 
users more declarative: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/
I'm working with rpm-ostree (https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/) and Butane 
(https://coreos.github.io/butane/) to manage system state more declaratively. 
Currently rpm-ostree manages RPMs and then Butane handles things like putting 
config files in /etc or creating users. It sounds like there's some overlap 
between the changes in RPMs around managing users and Butane, so I'm wondering 
if there could be more cooperation.
If RPMs relied less on scriptlets and more on declarative config that could be 
merged, it would make optimizations for containerization a lot easier. Each 
package in a container image could be in a separate layer, which would allow 
much better sharing between container images. Adding a single package to a 
container image could just require pulling the package, rather than running a 
scriptlet that could possibly change the base image. 
Do you think it would be possible to move some of the configuration tasks 
performed in scriptlets into something declarative that could be merged with 
other configuration?
Are there any ways rpm-ostree/Butane could align itself better with the 
direction RPMs are taking? Is there a solution or format that would satisfy the 
requirements of both tools?

Thanks,
Matthew
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