[$] Relocating Fedora's RPM database

The deadlinesfor various kinds of Fedora 36 change proposals have mostly passed atthis point, which led to something of a flurry of postings to thedistribution's devel mailing list over the last month. One of those, for a seemingly fairlyinnocuous relocation of the RPM database from /var to/usr, came in right at the buzzer for system-wide changes onDecember 29. There were, of course, other things going on around thattime, holidays, vacations, and so forth, so the discussion was relativelymuted until recently. Proponents have a number of reasons why they would liketo see the move, but there is resistance, as well, that is due, at least in part, to thelongstanding "tradition" of the location for the database.