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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:09:23
Message-Id: 486FC6F3.2010905@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick schrieb:
2 > On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:14:17 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
3 >
4 >> I find it a bit sad that cdrkit is the preferred cd burning application
5 >> because it satisfies the cdrtools virtual first. This means when you
6 >> have neither cdrkit nor cdrtools installed cdrkit is preferred. However
7 >> i could not find out why. There is nothing in the profiles which defines
8 >> how cdrkit is favored. Maybe someone can point me to the right location.
9 >
10 > It is defined in the virtuals file in your profile.
11 >
12 >> I think cdrtools should be preferred and not the fork cdrkit!
13 >
14 > It depends on the profile, some default to cdrkit, some to cdrtools:
15 >
16 > grep virtual/cdrtools /usr/portage/profiles/**/virtuals
17 >
18 >
19
20 grep virtual/cdrtools
21 /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/**/virtuals
22 /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/base/virtuals:virtual/cdrtools
23 app-cdr/cdrkit
24
25 That was what i am looking for, thanks! Why they did choose cdrkit in
26 favor of cdrtools is a miracle to me! Maybe I will ask the maintainer
27 about this!
28
29 Regards,
30
31 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>