The packaging guidelines have a section that lists certain directories that packages should not touch. There's a few things about it that seem to need updating:
Draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Untouchable_directories
Diff against old version: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AToshio%2FUntouchable_directories&diff=383750&oldid=383740
Answering this question would also help with this texlive bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128240
This was passed, from http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fpc/fpc.2014-08-14-15.58.txt:
Guidelines updated. Announcement text:
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The guidelines about directories that Fedora packages are not allowed to touc has been updated to:
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