two separate layers for rpmdb's in bootc image

[renner0e]

When rechunking a fedora-bootc image created with rpm-ostree there are multiple rpmdb's in the image. Is the behavior of putting the same hardlinked rpmdb into two separate layers intentional? There was some prior related discussion around this a couple months ago over here.

ls -l /usr/share/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm-ostree-base-db/rpmdb.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 3 root root 33550336 Jan  1  1970 /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm-ostree-base-db/rpmdb.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 3 root root 33550336 Jan  1  1970 /usr/share/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite

{
     "created": "2026-06-19T22:13:36Z",
     "created_by": "chunkah",
     "author": "chunkah",
     "comment": "bigfiles/usr/share/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite"
},
{
     "created": "2026-06-19T22:13:36Z",
     "created_by": "chunkah",
     "author": "chunkah",
     "comment": "bigfiles/rpmdb.sqlite"
},