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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:24:08 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/cdrtools Makefile pkg-descr pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist pkg-plist.mkisofspatch-cdda2wav::interface.c
Message-ID:  <20040602212408.C1600@newtrinity.zeist.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040602180410.GR18775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>; from stijn@win.tue.nl on Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:04:10PM %2B0200
References:  <200406021716.i52HG4dF012607@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040602180410.GR18775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:16:04AM -0700, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > netchild    2004/06/02 10:16:04 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sysutils/cdrtools    Makefile pkg-descr pkg-plist 
> >     sysutils/cdrtools/files patch-README.rscsi 
> >                             patch-cdda2wav::interface.c 
> >   Removed files:
> >     sysutils/cdrtools    pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist.mkisofs 
> >   Log:
> 
> >   - Stop the artificial separation of mkisofs from cdrtools and merge
> >     sysutils/mkisofs into sysutils/cdrtools which brings us in line
> >     with other distributions. The separation of mkisofs caused quite
> >     some confusion among users as well as committers about why its
> >     PORTVERSION was different from the cdrtools port, how to install
> >     it, etc.
> 
> The reason this got split was that you don't need cdrtools to burn CD's
> (see burncd(8)), but you do need a tool to make an ISO fs.
> 

Well, this is only true for ATAPI burners on ata(4).
Do you remember a discussion regarding the split? I didn't find a
thread about it and doubt that burncd(8) was the real reason. The
log of the commit that turned sysutils/mkisofs into a slave-port
also doesn't tell about why it was done that way.



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