From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21821 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Sep 2003 02:09:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5728 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2003 02:09:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3F569EC5.7050406@email.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:09:09 -0700 From: Riyad Kalla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030904005914.GA6591@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> In-Reply-To: <20030904005914.GA6591@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion for new use-flag: dvdr X-Archives-Salt: bc05d658-0254-4090-a88e-749af58b7a50 X-Archives-Hash: e22249b40e743fd1b22f79cb580c2204 Makes sense to me, especially since these dvd writers are starting to get so affordable (read: the new plextor is $259 @ newegg) -Riyad Lars Weiler wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to hear your opinions about a new global > USE-flag for DVD-writing, called dvdr. > > We just ran into the problem, that we have USE-flags for cdr > and dvd, but both won't fit DVD-writing. The dvd-USE-flag > is mostly for DVD-readonly-usage. So, if we use the > dvd-USE-flag together with cdrtools or xcdroast, a huge > number of users would install to much software and only a > small number of users could benefit from them. > > For the moment we have two packages that would make use of > a dvdr-USE-flag: > - cdrtools > - xcdroast > > Maybe there are more applications I don't know of, but > mostly they are directly based on the cdrtools. > > At the moment there is a fork of the cdrtools in portage, > called cdrtools-dvdr. This package would become deprecated > with a dvdr-USE-flag as it is the same like the cdrtools, > but with a special patch for DVD-writing. This could be > better handled by a USE-flag. > > Regards, Lars > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list