On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:11 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:09:29 +0200
> Lars Weiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > app-cdr/xcdroast: A nice rustical application, which reminds
> >   me to my first CD-burnings on Linux...  But there was no
> >   upstream update within 2,5 years.  Also there are now a
> >   lot of other gtk2-based applications which are bettter
> >   than xcdrtools.
> 
> If there's nothing actually broken with xcdroast, why remove it?  It
> does provide a cd-burning app for those who want something with few
> dependencies.  Are there other CD-burning apps that don't depend on qt
> or gtk2?gre
> 
> hmm; I notice it wants cdrecord-prodvd for dvd writing - will it not
> use the newer app-cdr/cdrtools to support DVDs (perhaps with the -n
> option to not check the tool version)?  Presumably the newer cdrtools
> is backwards-compatible with the cdrecord-prodvd command line options?
> 
I've talked with Lars we will keep xcdroast for a bit. Instead we will
remove simplecdrx that i will mask now. The upstream is dead for years
and there's not need to keep it.

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