Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:01:02 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:29:51PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >... > So I think IFF you (as a distro) attempt to do any changes (be it adding > a well-selling feature like DVD toasting), you *will* somewhen reach a > critical mass: the point of no return (of good patches). > > Seems we're slowly reaching there. (I'm just waiting to see a giant Arch > repo of a single, unified Linux distro because of that.) > > > > While they (and any other distro's people and anybody else) may > > > actually hack the code to no end, I consider it being good habit to > > > > By far the largest modification is dvd support, which we of course need > > to ship. The rest is really minor stuff. > > What's more important to whom? First ship the feature, or first getting > consens with the initial author? Exactly--there are two answers:(
Joerg offers his own non-free program cdrecord-ProDVD with DVD support.
So why should he ever add DVD support to the GPLed cdrecord, no matter how good the patches are?
> MfG, JBG
cu Adrian
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