intent to retire: kudzu

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 15:28 -0500, 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.

It appears that system-config-network 's dependency on kudzu may have
been incorrectly dropped:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00456.html

without it, s-c-n cannot handle modem connections, it looks like.

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