Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> I've submitted a bug on this since I can't seem to find any more info on why
> it was removed (and why it's still in the release notes since it is removed).
> If anyone else is interested, the bug is here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152439
Actually, some time ago, I filled another bug report (#145188)
complaining that it is almost impossible to remove howl from the
machine, because if it is present in distribution, than half of the
system depends on it. In Fedora (where howl is present), if you want to
remove howl from the system (since you do not need it, and most people
really do not need it), you must remove almost all GNOME packages,
OpenOffice, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, ... (and the list goes on and
on) to satisfy dependencies.
My guess is they temporarely removed it until there is solution for
dependency nightmare howl creates. Probably until it is modularized
enough so that it really becomes an optional component that other
components can easily live without.
BTW, what is the big deal with howl? If you have static networking, you
do not need it. If you do not have static networking, you are most
likely using DHCP, so you get almost all that stuff from DHCP server
anyhow...
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