NCPFS Support

[Paul]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 15:32 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:32 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:30:20AM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > >  > Can anybody here answer the question as to why NCPFS is being listed as
> > >  > "not being on the roadmap"?
> > >  > 
> > >  > Seeing that we run Novell it's rather handy to have, also most schools
> > >  > in the area run Novell and I'm curious as to why it's being dropped.
> > >  
> > > (14:19:58:davej at nwo:~)$ modinfo ncpfs
> > > filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1231_FC4smp/kernel/fs/ncpfs/ncpfs.ko
> > > license:        GPL
> > > srcversion:     48FE1F47EB82AE5EB3A295D
> > > depends:
> > > vermagic:       2.6.11-1.1231_FC4smp SMP gcc-4.0
> > > 
> > > It's been there forever.
> > 
> > can i ask why it was removed from rhel4 along with ipx support?
> > 
> 
> not on this list, you can't.
> 
> this isn't a rhel list.

Well it's listed under Packages Deprecated
      * ncpfs — No longer part of Fedora Core profile
        
I guest my question is, why is it being deprecated?

This does tie into FL's question, though I agree RHEL is not on-topic
for this list.