Hmmm...
frankies root # emerge -s cdrecord
Searching...
[ Results for search key : cdrecord ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd
Latest version available: 2.01_beta31
Latest version installed: 2.01_beta31
Size of downloaded files: 364 kB
Homepage:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
Description: Enhancement of cdrecord for writing DVDs
License: as-is
frankies root #
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:45 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Frank Schafer wrote:
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I'll do this tonight. I wonder if this will be an action over weekend,
> > so I did just now:
> >
> > emerge -upv --newuse world
> >
> <snip of potential emerge list>
>
> > O.K, that's not so much. What confuses me is the fact, that cdrecord
> > won't be re-emerged.
>
> As far as I know, that's because "plain vanilla" cdrecord does not
> handle DVDs under any circumstances. The tools you use for DVDs are
>
> 1) patched cdrecord (emerge cdrecord-ProDVD)
>
> 2) dvd+rw-tools
>
> I *think* that this is an either/or situation rather than a both/and; if
> you install dvd+rw-tools, you don't actually need cdrecord-ProDVD as
> well (because growisofs, included in dvd+rw-tools, takes care of burning
> DVDs). But Linux is about choice, and so you can use the patched
> cdrecord instead (which replaces cdrecord).
>
> I am not completely sure about this; it is based on my experience of
> having actually removed cdrecord-ProDVD and having nothing break in my
> burning experience (due to still having dvd+rw-tools installed, which is
> what most frontends that can burn DVDs use to burn DVDs, in my experience).
>
> HTH,
> Holly
>
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