%{?dist} (was: Re: Request for a sponsor and a review of: pam_abl)

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:17 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > Btw, you've still not given a good reason why you want to enforce
> > %{?dist} on packagers. Where is the value in making it mandatory?
> 
> As the person who wrote the dist tag documentation, it is not, and never
> will be, mandatory. :)
> 
> There are plenty of cases in which it is useful, and plenty of cases
> when it is not useful.

noarch packages that do not have dependencies on specific versions of
perl/python/etc are the only situations I can think of where they might
not be useful. But I didn't think very hard.