On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but > > I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it > > works with what I have installed right now). > > If you rarely use it and if you only use very basic functionality, you may not > run into problems that are visible to you ... if you are lucky. > > genisoimage creates nearly all ISO images with defects that may hit you in the > future. > > genisoimage misses many important features needed for DVDs and BluRays > > wodim does not write BluRay at all and writing DVDs only works on a few cases. > > BTW: Linux-2.2 may also still work - do you really like to use it today? > Wodim is code from 2004, it misses half of the development efforts seen in the > original software. I know that growisofs uses mkisofs, but didn't know that the present version is 4+ years old. Anyway, i just removed dvd+rw-tools, and k3b whines about not finding growisofs in the PATH. What should i do? Joerg, out of curiosity, do you use the commandline version of your baby, or some frontend? @ Thomas, it would be great to have cdrtools in the repositories. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
