@dmnks converted this issue into discussion #2767.
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This needs an rpmte/rpmts API rework to be sane, currently its ridiculously
cumbersome to find the element you just added in order to add some extra data
to the element. There are several use-cases that would benefit from such work
though.
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Commit b3fcaba3816aa00f3360efe728dafa72e394f65b added a tag reservation
basically just for this purpose but the implementation got stalled with various
underlying defiences, side-issues and API considerations.
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The idea has been bandied about before to migrate the "reason" info stored in
yumdb (now using SWDB in newer versions of DNF). I don't know what really holds
up a potential implementation of this in the rpmdb.
@dmach, @ffesti, @pmatilai: what do you guys think?
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When installing anything on the system all packages are treated as equals,
which in turn makes it pretty hard to interpret wether user decided to install
package A or if it was pulled and installed only as dependency.
It would be nice to store a marker for each package to figure out where it