Why RHEL 8 rpms still shipping prelink configuration files?

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Issue

  • Prelink is deprecated in RHEL8, but some packages are still shipping configuration files for it.
  • Why some rpms are still shipping prelink configuration files although it is absent in RHEL8?
  • No files related to prelink should be present in RHEL8.

    /etc/prelink.conf.d
    /etc/prelink.conf.d/grub2.conf
    /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/prelink
    /usr/share/selinux/targeted/default/active/modules/100/prelink
    /usr/share/selinux/targeted/default/active/modules/100/prelink/cil
    /usr/share/selinux/targeted/default/active/modules/100/prelink/lang_ext
    /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/100/prelink
    /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/100/prelink/cil
    /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/100/prelink/hll
    /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/100/prelink/lang_ext
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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