On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 01:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/10/2009 01:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13. > > > > Why? > > - There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current kernels > > - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been > > frozen and deprecated > > - Given that, its upstream is very dead > > > > However, it is still being required by two programs: > > - hwbrowser > > - fwfstab > > > > If someone wants to keep it limping along for thsese two programs I can > > orphan it. But I'd really rather just retire it. > > I filed a bug report against these programs a while back to move away > from Kudzu. Neither of these programs themselves seem to be actively > maintained anymore. The move from kudzu over udev to hal and via DeviceKit back to (lib)udev wasn't something I wanted to follow while it was still moving ;-). In the hope that using libudev is here to stay, I can now reimplement hwbrowser on top of it -- I don't think porting the old code is a good idea, as it wasn't written with hot-pluggable hardware in mind. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
