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Makes sense to me, especially since these dvd writers are starting to |
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get so affordable (read: the new plextor is $259 @ newegg) |
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-Riyad |
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Lars Weiler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I would like to hear your opinions about a new global |
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> USE-flag for DVD-writing, called dvdr. |
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> We just ran into the problem, that we have USE-flags for cdr |
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> and dvd, but both won't fit DVD-writing. The dvd-USE-flag |
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> is mostly for DVD-readonly-usage. So, if we use the |
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> dvd-USE-flag together with cdrtools or xcdroast, a huge |
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> number of users would install to much software and only a |
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> small number of users could benefit from them. |
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> For the moment we have two packages that would make use of |
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> a dvdr-USE-flag: |
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> - cdrtools |
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> - xcdroast |
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> Maybe there are more applications I don't know of, but |
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> mostly they are directly based on the cdrtools. |
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> At the moment there is a fork of the cdrtools in portage, |
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> called cdrtools-dvdr. This package would become deprecated |
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> with a dvdr-USE-flag as it is the same like the cdrtools, |
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> but with a special patch for DVD-writing. This could be |
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> better handled by a USE-flag. |
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> Regards, Lars |
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