On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 09:33 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
Am Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:20:40 +0100 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar <dimstar@opensuse.org>:
"must not" ? I can't recall any of our guidelines telling that this would be forbidden in our setup. It's definitively up to the maintainers to decide.
Its common sense to not invent special macros for the sake of it, even if we have the liberty to do so. As said earlier, %_datadir/whatever is enough.
As long as the packaging guidelines do not prohibit it, packagers are free to do what they feel is right in this regards. Not all packages are exclusively openSUSE systems - once thinking beyond, those team MIGHT have a reason to do so. Or should I just interpret your message as a 'vote for change of the packaging guidelines' ? Cheers Dominique