Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled?

[Linda Walsh]

> 
> xfsprogs has had this support via readline since, well, before I
> started working on XFS....
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ok... I know this isn't in my version...
> which xfs_db
/usr/sbin/xfs_db
Ishtar:law> ldd /usr/sbin/xfs_db
         linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffbcb07000)
         libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x0000003007200000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003001000000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003000400000)
         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003000000000)
--- there is no libreadline

Hmmm....maybe it's a distro bug...but can't figure out why they'd turn it off...