Sometime Today, S. Krishnan assembled some asciibets to say:
It may not be a good idea, but things are not going to work if you don't - compiles will keep breaking. As for why, I guess Red Hat knows, but I don't - this is just something that I have observed
Oh, ok. Redhat problem. Ya, the first thing I do when I install a new system is to uninstall the redhat kernel. You've got to remove the kernel sources, and headers, but leave the entry in the rpm database. Then install the latest kernel - after checking reviews of course.
Then, run up2date to upgrade everything.
Philip