[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Gaurish Sharma]

Hi,
Atleast, you have my vote, I building cdrtools from AUR as we speak.
there is no point of using unmaintned software.

Anyone,
How can we setup cdrtools to completely replace cdrkit so that other
programs like k3b can use seamlessly ? Any guides, I didn't find
anything on ArchLinux Wiki which is kinda strange.

One more thing
cdrtools required it to be run as root, isn't that dangerous. any
method by which we give the required permissions to normal user?


Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com



On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Gaurish Sharma <contact at gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Leaving all the licenses and legal issues aside,
>>
>> Q) Which is better out of the two?
>>
>> please respond purely on technical basis.
>
> Everything has been said, you just need to read it.
>
> Users demand working software and thus request cdrtools.
>
> It is up to the distros to follow the demands of their users or to ignore it.
>
> BTW: I have been asked by people from Arch Linux to help with this discussion.
> I was not prepared that one or two people act extremely stubborn and that I do
> not get help from the marority that seems to prefer the original software.
>
> Jörg
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