diff --git a/neovim.changes b/neovim.changes
index 85a6a03..33ec945 100644
--- a/neovim.changes
+++ b/neovim.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Aug 25 20:15:52 UTC 2018 - mcepl@suse.com
+
+- Put the system-wide config in /etc, and just a symlink to $VIM
+  (hopefully finally fixes boo#1098800)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Aug 18 15:04:51 UTC 2018 - Matěj Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/neovim.spec b/neovim.spec
index 659ab02..2be2a4c 100644
--- a/neovim.spec
+++ b/neovim.spec
@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %cmake_install
 
 # system-wide configuration file
-install -D -m 644 -p %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/nvim/sysinit.vim
+install -D -m 644 -p %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/nvim/sysinit.vim
+ln -sf  %{_sysconfdir}/nvim/sysinit.vim %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/nvim/sysinit.vim
+
 %if 0%{?suse_version}
 install -p -m 644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/nvim/template.spec
 %else
@@ -131,6 +133,8 @@ install -p -m 644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/nvim/template.spec
 %{_datadir}/applications/nvim.desktop
 %{_datadir}/pixmaps/nvim.png
 %{_mandir}/man1/nvim.1%{?ext_man}
+%dir %{_sysconfdir}/nvim
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/nvim/sysinit.vim
 
 %files lang -f nvim.lang