Package Removal: macutils

[Tom Callaway]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:47 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> 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?

macutils has:

- bin/hex converters (perl has Convert::Binhex)
- apps to send files to and from OLD macs (I'm not aware of any other
apps)

~spot