diff --git a/yelp.spec b/yelp.spec
index 1c3fcdf..c3db2b9 100644
--- a/yelp.spec
+++ b/yelp.spec
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libyelp.a
 rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libyelp.la
 
-mkdir -p -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/gnome/help
-
 %find_lang %{name}
 
 %check
@@ -112,7 +110,6 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}icons/hicolor &> /dev/null || :
 %doc ChangeLog AUTHORS COPYING MAINTAINERS NEWS README
 %{_bindir}/*
 %{_datadir}/applications/yelp.desktop
-%dir %{_datadir}/gnome/help
 %{_datadir}/yelp
 %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.yelp.gschema.xml
 %{_datadir}/yelp-xsl/xslt/common/domains/yelp.xml
@@ -129,6 +126,8 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}icons/hicolor &> /dev/null || :
 %changelog
 * Sat May 25 2013 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 1:3.8.1-3
 - Make yelp-libs dep arch-specific, thanks to Michael Schwendt (#967180)
+- Don't create empty /usr/share/gnome/help directory: this should be owned by
+  individual packages that install files in there (#964421)
 
 * Sat May 18 2013 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 1:3.8.1-2
 - yelp should depend on yelp-libs not the other way around