[Abcde-users] Change default CDDA2WAV variable to cdrtools cdda2wav

Roger rogerx.oss at gmail.com
Thu May 2 00:20:06 BST 2013


> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:44:52PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:18:03AM +1000, andrew wrote:
>>On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:57:12AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>>
>>> The cdrkit (icedax) package was created due to a disagreement many years ago, 
>>> and never really flourished into anything aside from creating a
>>> little noise.  My guess, it lingers historically in case cdrtools
>>> has future problems.
>>
>>I am not a Debian user but my impression was that the disagreement
>>between Debian and Jörg Schilling still continues?
>
>It is a long-term goal in Debian to remove all software originated or
>maintained by Schily. That includes cdrkit itself; I would instead
>push people to use xorriso and friends for optical media stuff as much
>as possible.

I see no xorriso within Gentoo's Portage package folders.  I do see an initial 
commit for a xorriso-1.0.8.ebuild to Portage back in May 26 2011, but it looks 
like it was yanked.

Xorriso does appear to now reside within a user's overlay named betagarden.

Xorriso does appear to be a current GNU project.

Xorriso appears to use dev-libs/libburn, found on most distributions and is a 
frontend to these libburn libraries?

Again, for those that use something other than cdparanoia or cdda2wav, might 
want to document it within the abcde.conf file, else commoners will be saying a 
few choice words while trying to hunt down their depends! ;-)

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/



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