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Person A: Today the rpmdb in the container is large:

```-rw-r--r--  0 0      0      528384 Jan 25 15:34 var/lib/rpm/Basenames
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0     1318912 Jan 25 15:34 var/lib/rpm/__db.003
-rw-r--r--  0 0      0     6623232 Jan 25 15:34 var/lib/rpm/Packages```

Person B: yeah.. i bet the changelogs are a large part of that too

I think the RFE here is for a much smaller rpmdb particularly for our microdnf-based container.

Let us start by asking for advice, cloning this for rpm.

Simple run of "rpm --rebuilddb" post-build would save considerable space and it would also clean up RPM's secondary indices (__db*).

Fo the current minimal image it saves ~600K:
(https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=969078)

[root@localhost 015629c07862e8cf022472e28989e7a45113339c9e80463bc9c9bb0938cd30b5]# chroot .

[root@localhost /]# du -h /var/lib/rpm
5.9M	/var/lib/rpm

[root@localhost /]# rpm --rebuilddb

[root@localhost /]# du -h /var/lib/rpm
5.3M	/var/lib/rpm

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.