Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

>>  OTOH, I'm not sure what problem is actually solved. However I've
>>  been asked for separate popt every 6 months or so for years and years.
> 
> IMHO as long as POPT is available as RPMs and Tarballs in its own
> http://rpm5.org/files/popt/ this should be really fully sufficient.

FWIW in Fedora popt is in its own package and has some other customers...

$ rpm -q --whatrequires popt
planner-0.14.2-1.fc6
nash-6.0.9-5
rpm-4.4.2-46.fc7

-Andy