From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:45:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709261145.03106.grimlog@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F98B2B.9000403@gmail.com>
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 00:26:51 schrieb b.n.:
> Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto:
> > Am Montag, 24. September 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar:
> >> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY
> >> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons
> >> on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but
> >> switched to cdrkit?
> >
> > Keep your private rants offlist please. Your personal opinions on Jörg
> > Schilling are completly irrelevant.
>
> I agree it was not a nice rant, but it's not an irrelevant opinion,
> because Schilling -let's say- idiosyncratic personality, has led, as
> Alexander pointed out, to the disapperance of cdrecord from most Linux
> distros and its substitution with cdrkit, for example.
and I for myself drop cdrkit in every place I find it and replace it with the
imo working tool named cdrecord.
> The problem is that of a tool that for licence etc. problems could be
> easily be dropped from a distribution. It's of a relatively unreliable
> developer (or, better stated, of unrealiable relationships between the
> dev and the community).
I have no problems at all with Jörg, quite the opposite.
> Given this, I would think twice before
> substituting tar with a Schilling tool. The cdrecord scar is still painful.
Good programmers often have big egos. See Linus for an example. When will
distributions drop the kernel, because Linus made bad comments about gnome,
cups or some other random program?
The tool (star, cdrecord) works, is well supported and the programmer reacts
in time to requests. What else do you expect?
> m.
Greetings,
Michael
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 16:03 [gentoo-user] star Florian Philipp
2007-09-22 17:23 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-22 18:14 ` Florian Philipp
2007-09-22 20:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-24 8:30 ` [gentoo-user] star Alexander Skwar
2007-09-24 17:58 ` Stroller
2007-09-25 6:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-25 13:24 ` b.n.
2007-09-25 13:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-25 14:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-26 7:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-26 7:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-26 8:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-26 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-26 8:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-26 8:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-26 9:49 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-09-26 10:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-26 11:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-26 13:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-24 8:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-24 16:38 ` Florian Philipp
2007-09-25 6:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-25 16:37 ` Florian Philipp
2007-09-25 20:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-09-25 22:26 ` b.n.
2007-09-26 9:45 ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2007-09-26 17:44 ` b.n.
2007-09-26 17:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-24 8:24 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-09-25 20:55 ` [gentoo-user] star Michael Schreckenbauer
[not found] <46f98ceb.FK1zsMF7EsB2Kd3W%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
2007-09-26 17:52 ` [gentoo-user] star b.n.
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2007-09-28 14:43 Joerg Schilling
2007-09-28 17:56 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-09-28 19:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2007-09-28 14:55 Joerg Schilling
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