Tom Lane wrote:
I recall at least one bugzilla entry in which was discussed the idea
of forcibly installing that package, or at least making it somewhat
difficult to choose a configuration that didn't have it. If it's
not there, way too many things go wrong in way too many obscure ways.
+1, redhat-rpm-config should be required by rpm. Especially now that AFAIU
we also put some runtime configuration into it (i586 as the main arch on
ix86) rather than just build-time configuration.
Kevin Kofler