With more and more packages, especially in the distributions that do library
subpackaging by soname (such as openSUSE, Mageia, and OpenMandriva), there's a
lot of data that comes from the source package that has duplicate entries in
the rpmdb per binary package. The largest offender of this is the changelog
data, but sometimes also license tags and a few other things wind up being the
same.
A nice optimization for this would be to have a skeleton "source package" rpmdb
entry with that data and put the common data there and have the binary package
entries in the rpmdb link to that. This can lead to significant shrinkage of
the rpmdb depending on distro policy on packaging.
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