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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list