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Misc bits: dual package system support
We had the means to allow installing rpms unmodified to our ProdNG deb image, and even have them update the dpkg file list.
We however opted for not adding that complexity since dual package support would have rough edges and unfortunate side effects.
We also wanted to entice our internal developers to just switch to a single system to make things simpler: debs for all.
As a result, we were able to drop another 4MB or so of packages just for RPM support.
rpm2cpio itself requires 3-4MB of dependencies, but it can be rewritten as a small shell script :)