Package Removal: macutils

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Tue Aug 15 16:47:56 UTC 2006


Tom Callaway wrote:
> As part of Fedora's ongoing commitment to Free Software, we have been
> undergoing a license audit of the packages contained in Fedora Core. 
> 
> The macutils package was found to have no valid license or copyright,
> and questionable lineage. Since nothing depends on macutils, this was a
> trivial package to remove, and it has been taken out of Fedora Core
> starting with FC-6.
> 
> Full details are in the bugzilla report here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202518
> 
> ~spot

I've made use of it in the past as an end user.  Is there any kind of 
replacement out there for dealing with Mac format files?

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