Re: [Cdrtools-support] cdrecord

Noel Butler <noe...@au...> wrote:

> Noel did not include any errors because there are none.
> This is a reply to Jorgs post from 10 month ago, you likely missed it. 
> and the Question in there was install, looks like it will install 
> everything, not just what you want, I was asking him for clarification 
> if that was so, because I have better things to do than spend 2 days 
> selectively recovering my system back to what it is and is needed as for 
> very specific reasons.

If you have problems with your distro, please try tro contact the people behind 
that distro.
 
> > I'm just trying to understand why slackware about-to-be-released new 
> > latest distro is still on 3.0.1
> > As they think/believe the 3.0.2alpha means it's not "Stable"??
> 
> The old alphas no longer seem available on my mirror, and as Jorg said, 
> its no longer released as cdrtools for years now, its is now in his all 
> encompassing schilytools package, which has a whole lot more than 
> cdrecord mkisofs etc.

I have no idea what mirror you have in mind. Please note that I do not control 
mirrors.
 
> Jorg once complained strongly when debian used a fork, because teh fork 
> was made easy to install and they refused to use alpha versions or some 
> such rot, this is many years ago. Youd think he would make it easy for 
> people if he still wants it used.

Sorry, but it does not help if a distro offers easy to install binary packages 
that are full of distro specific bugs that prevent usability.

In general, in order to avoid your problem, you have two options:

-	compile cdrtools yourself

-	switch to a Linux distro that is fully OSS oriented
 
> and if I am to show justification to slackware, I need authoritative 
> answer to my install question, and I shouldnt have to "try it myself" to 
> find out :)

Well, Suse, Gentoo and some other Linux distros switched to schilytools a 
long time ago. Did you try to contact your distro?

Jörg

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