On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 16:03 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
If you'd like to propose a new guideline/change to the existing one, that would be great. It sounds like the consensus here for #1 is to deprecate absolute paths. And to explain why the Requires are needed for #2.
The wiki does in fact already state that the short name style is 'preferred', but we could make it more strongly say 'you really shouldn't use an absolute path'.
Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem? It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend on a package simply for the provision of the directory...