On 09/12/13 16:11, Johnny Hughes wrote: [...]
The changelog contains this:
compat-openmpi-1.4.3-1.1.el6.x86_64 [2.6 MiB] Changelog by Jay Fenlason (2013-08-14):
- Also include 1.5.3 libraries so users of RHEL-6.5+ can run programs compiled on RHEL-6.2- Resolves: rhbz876315
So, I would say that, yes, it is on purpose.
Thanks. Sorry for posting before reading the changelog properly.