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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:42:11 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/cdrtools Makefile pkg-descr pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist pkg-plist.mkisofspatch-cdda2wav::interface.c
Message-ID:  <20040602184211.GT18775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040602203839.0aa57037@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
References:  <200406021716.i52HG4dF012607@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040602180410.GR18775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040602203839.0aa57037@Magellan.Leidinger.net>

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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:38:39PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:04:10 +0200
> Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>=20
> > >   - Stop the artificial separation of mkisofs from cdrtools and merge
> > >     sysutils/mkisofs into sysutils/cdrtools which brings us in line
> > >     with other distributions. The separation of mkisofs caused quite
> > >     some confusion among users as well as committers about why its
> > >     PORTVERSION was different from the cdrtools port, how to install
> > >     it, etc.
> >=20
> > The reason this got split was that you don't need cdrtools to burn CD's
> > (see burncd(8)), but you do need a tool to make an ISO fs.
>=20
> Yes, I talked about this with Marius (the maintainer) too. According to
> Marius every other distribution doesn't split the cdrtools. So the merge
> not only meets the expectations of a lot of users (and reduces the
> support requests to Marius), it makes us also consistent with other OS
> incarnations, so people which switch their OS (or use multiple of them)
> don't get confused.

OK. I stood the other way once, but I respect this decision. I just didn't
see it in the commit message so I thought this was overlooked.

--Stijn

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