On 02/28/2011 09:19 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:13:22 -0800, > Toshio Kuratomi<a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> If people have additional reasons that macroizing all directory paths make >> sense, please let us know (here or as a comment in the ticket). Then FPC >> can decide whether to relax this rule or update the rule with information >> about why we have it in place. > > It matters for multilib stuff as the directory path is different on different > arches. It matters for everything, because any of these directories may change at any time. Those occasions are rare, nevertheless they happen. Historic example: The "/usr/man -> /usr/share/man" mover. Other unlikely to happen, but also not entirely impossible changes: - Multi-arched "bindirs" (say /usr/bin -> /usr/bin64) (This had been proposed and was discussed in the early fedora days) - Multi-arched "libexec" (Actually a special case of "multi-arched bindirs") - Configuration path changes (aka. %_sysconfdir) IIRC, %_sysconfdir had silently been changed several times, because it did not point to /etc in old RH rpms. Ralf -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
