intent to retire: kudzu

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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

What Red Hat filed Chapter 13? Crap I needed that paycheck next week.

> 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.

So what replaces kudzu these days. I will say for one that I will miss
it.. almost enough to take over it...



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Stephen J Smoogen.

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