On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:03 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > 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. I noticed recently that suse have a patch to add a 'Hardware' tab to gnome-system-monitor. I haven't looked deeper, so I don't know if it is any good. But it might be worth checking out. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
