Subject: Re: [bug#32165] [PATCH] gnu: Add cdrkit-libre.

From: Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:35:43 +0300

Hello Nils,

Nils Gillmann <[email-masked]> writes:

[…]

>> +    (synopsis "Portable command-line CD/DVD recorder software, mostly
>> +compatible with cdrtools")
>> +    (description "Cdrkit is a suite of programs for recording CDs and DVDs,
>> +blanking CD-RW media, creating ISO-9660 filesystem images, extracting audio CD
>> +data, and more.")
>
> Could we explain the difference to cdrkit here and why people would want this
> probably reduced variant of it? When someone search for cdrkit, they will
> get 2 results, and 1 will only differ in the homepage and the word "mostly",
> more or less.

I think cdrkit and cdrkit-libre not much differ based on the diff of Nix
cdrkit and Parabola cdrkit-libre tarballs.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Only in cdrkit-1.1.11-nix/doc/genisoimage: README.hfs_boot
Only in cdrkit-1.1.11-nix/genisoimage: apple_driver.8
Only in cdrkit-1.1.11-nix/genisoimage: apple_driver.c
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I assume something like “@code{cdrkit-libre} doesn't contain HFS boot
code.” in the description could work, WDYT?

Thanks,
Oleg.