%{?dist}, recommended or optional?

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 04:01 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:56 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > 
> > After all I found here, I guess I'll not use it for things like font
> > packages, where the dependencies aren't really there and people can keep
> > using the old version when they upgrade
> 
> They can't always.
> Fonts for fc-3/fc-4 use fonts.cache-1
> 
> In fc5 - a fonts.cache-2 file is used.
> While the fonts would continue to work, un-installing would be dirty
> unless fonts.cache-2 was ghosted in the fc3/fc4 package, which it may
> not have been.

So, should we try and make a list of situation where %{?dist} is not
really needed (so we can recommend it in other cases)? There is already
one candidate: a font package in which fonts.cache-2 is ghosted in the
FC3/4 package. 

roozbeh