Description of problem: While the rpmdb-redhat package is very large, having it installed is very useful for non-everything installs when you go to install a package which needs something else and I generally install it. While redhat-config-packages may be able to resolve dependencies without rpmdb-redhat, if you have a package which is not on the distribution but needs a package from the distribution, having rpmdb-redhat (someday rpmdb-fedora I assume) makes things easier. Yes, I could install this post install but it would be easier if it is available for selection (but not installed by default). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This selection is determined by the comps package.
Ideally, the methods used by rpmdb-redhat and redhat-config-packages are merged, and one of comps.rpm and rpmdb-redhat goes away.
As rpmdb appears to be being slowly phased out in favor of RPM metadata, I doubt this will change.