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Description of problem:

On my RHEL6 workstation x86_64 installation DVD with this media.repo file:

[InstallMedia]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
mediaid=1285193686.718625
metadata_expire=-1
gpgcheck=0
cost=500

I have the giflib package but not the giflib-devel or giflib-utils packages.  I can't think of any rational reason why the runtime package would be there without the development package.  It was certainly present in RHEL5.

% ls Packages/giflib*             
Packages/giflib-4.1.6-3.1.el6.i686.rpm  Packages/giflib-4.1.6-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

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inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
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It looks like this problem is still present for RHEL 6.1 beta.  I really don't understand how the omission of a package that's actually required to satisfy build dependencies for some other packages (like emacs 23) can be omitted and this can not be considered to be a problem.  Isn't this just an error in the population of the DVDs?  I interpreted this to mean that it wouldn't be fixed until 6.1, but I guess I must have misunderstood.

I opened a support ticket: https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/00478332

got response from support ticket.

feel free to close.

The giflib-devel package is available in the Optional channel in RHN, and can be access using  https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11313