Installing in system directories outside of rpm

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/16/2015 10:21 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 05:21 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Letting applications install something into system-wide directories
>>> outside
>>> of rpm is not allowed in Fedora.
>>
>> Note that is's not preventable: Python, CPAN, and rubygems all have
>> strong support for this,
> We have a Fedora packaging rule which disallows all system-wide
> installations outside of rpm's control.
>
> The reasons for this conventions are
> * system-consistency
> * system-security
> * testing
>
> The only gap left open is installing into user private directories.

Can you point to this rule?  I'm curious because python's pip does 
install into system directories (and it has caused problems with 
conflicts with system packages - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176792).  pip install 
--upgrade will happy trash rpm installed files.

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