In my case it's because I'm comparing two machines. I'm going to check to size of /usr/local on both and compare them to see if someone has been compiling from source (and hence not registering stuff with rpm). I know that the disk usage is likely to be the same, but isn't guaranteed to be while the real (or apparent I guess) file sizes will be the same if the files are the same.
Before someone suggests MD5 let me say that it's not that important, but it is important enough to check sizes. We're not looking for hackers, just misguided developers.
If you use rpm -V, won't that catch people who have installed software overwriting your RPM installation?
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