Advice on rpath

[Neal Becker]

It seems many (most?) modern apps that install libs will want to hardcode
paths using -rpath.  It seems this causes rpm builds to fail, e.g.:

* 'check-rpaths' is part of 'rpmdevtools'.
*
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ERROR   0001: file '/usr/bin/xapian-tcpsrv' contains a standard
rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64]
[...]

In some cases, configure has --disable-rpaths that can fix this.  In other
cases not.

Is it acceptable for fe-extras to ignore this error?  AFAICT, this is
harmless.  What is the motivation to make this an error?