It boils down to only gvfs uses it. And it only uses it to read the title and the thumbnail from discs.

Opening the library for general consumption by publishing the -devel rpm opens Red Hat to other risks, e.g. dealing with CVEs in other parts of the library that Red Hat doesn't use.

(It seems to me they could have quite simply given the library a different name and avoided the whole issue.)

It looks like the people responsible for it will try to remove libbluray from RHEL8, opening the door for EPEL, one of the CentOS SIGs, or others to publish whatever they want without creating a conflict with the one in RHEL.

N.B. that's only libbluray.  libXvMC is another matter.

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Kaleb