It is unfortunate that osc doesn't allow discussion of requests, because I would like to know the benefit of this change. IMO it is confusing since there is no modutils package, only 'Provides: modutils' in the module-init-tools package. Sucks that I have to decline it only to get this simple question answered. Sorry elvigia, but I'll be happy to accept it after understanding the reason behind this change :).

There are two "modutils" implementations the old "module-init-tools" and the new "kmod" (package kmod-compat) both provide "modutils" we want to switch to kmod in the near future but a set of packages, including this one, block the change ;)

Ok, thanks for the explanation!