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

Roger rogerx.oss at gmail.com
Thu May 2 01:00:22 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.

Another option, is for the cdrkit or Xoriso packages to provide a symlink to 
cdda2wav.

>From what I'm seeing Gentoo has moved in the past five years, Gentoo is 
providing univeral symlinks with an eselect package managing the symlinks.  
(ie.  eselect cdparanoia)

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



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