Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:37:18 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> 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: <20040602213718.D1600@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20040602203839.0aa57037@Magellan.Leidinger.net>; from Alexander@Leidinger.net on Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:38:39PM %2B0200 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: > > > > - 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. > > > > 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. > > Yes, I talked about this with Marius (the maintainer) too. According to > Marius every other distribution doesn't split the cdrtools. So the merge Eh, I don't think I said "every other", anyway, at least NetBSD, OpenBSD and the Linux distributions I looked at don't. > 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. >
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