Comment # 11 on bug 1078466 from Ludwig Nussel

(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #10)
> (In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #9)
> > could even work without tmpfiles, by having a service that triggers on the
> > non-existence of something in /var, then call the script to create the
> > missing entries.
> 
> That's exactly what tmpfiles is doing, why should we duplicate that?

There's obviously overlap in functionality, as with any program that calls
mkdir but tmpfiles is more and different at the same time. The part that is
missing is actually reading the rpmdb instead of dumping that information into
an extra config file.