%{?dist}, recommended or optional?

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:56 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:18 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Shall I go on? I still fail to see where you see a contradiction.
> 
> Perhaps it's just my bad English and the way different people think
> about "contradiction". From what I'm getting here, it seems that the
> disttag is really recommended. So I guess we should mention that it's
> recommended in all pages it's discussed.
> 
> > Answer this question: If you want to release the same package for FC3, FC4
> > and FC5, what package revisions would you give your three packages and
> > future updates?
> 
> 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.