On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote:
> > > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools.
> > > And this depends on cdrkit until you remove the broken symlink. cdrkit
> > > seems to "steal" the cdrtools dependencies from other programs.
> >
> > *rolleyes* it is not 'stealing' but 'virtuals'. You might want to look
> > them up.
>
> cdrkit is not allowed to use the names "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "mkisofs"
> and similar.
AFAIK it doesn't. There might be some symlinks created. Ask someone using
cdrkit.
>
> In addition: grosisofs depends on features that are in the original
> software but not in the clone.
in that case it should have a 'hard' dependency on cdrtools and not the the
virtual.
>
> Why do you believe that you may install cdrkit instead of cdrtools?
I don't believe anything. There is a concept called 'virtuals' in gentoo. If
several pieces of software are able fill the same 'void', they are grouped
into a virtual and the user can choose which one he wants to use. Freedom of
choice is important for gentoo. There are of course defaults, if some package
is is 'sane', so that the user does not have to babysit long emerges and other
reasons. But cdrecord/cdrkit is not the only example. Just have a look at
/usr/portage/profiles/..../virtuals there are several. And lo and behold, some
virtuals have cdrtools set as default for the corresponding virtual.
find /usr/portage/profiles -name virtuals -exec cat {} \;
gives you a lot of hits. You can ask the responsible devs why/if cdrkit is the
default. If you ask politly I am sure they will answer.
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