[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 10:56:16 UTC 2012


Hello All.

2012/8/3 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>:
> On Wed, 01.08.12 15:28, Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines,
>> covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros
>
> What's the rationale behind having these in /etc? This is hardly user
> configuration, and only ever used if people build their own RPMs. We
> really should try harder not to clutter /etc with stuff that is not
> configuration.
>
> Why not have this somewhere below /usr?

Agree. We should install them into /usr/lib/rpm.
-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.


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