Fedora - time to blink

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 11/26/11, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta at hanzlici.cz> wrote:

> From: Frantisek Hanzlik <franta at hanzlici.cz>
> Subject: Re: Fedora - time to blink
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 2:24 AM
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:58 +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik
> wrote:
> > 
> >> License restrictions are one thing, but IMO Fedora
> did mistakes in
> >> free SW preference too - e.g. in each version of
> Fedora for several
> >> recent years I had to replace cripled and
> unmaintained wodim with
> >> original cdrtools, because otherwise I won't able
> burn CD/DVD media.
> > ----
> > ah but it was exactly licensing issues that caused the
> fork of cdrtools
> > into wodim...
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit
> > 
> > That said, it might have been more productive to file
> bugs against wodim
> > for things that haven't worked for you.
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> It is far simpler for me build cdrtools package and have
> fine result
> in several minutes. And especially about wodim there was/is
> many
> bugreports and as I wrote, it was basically unmaintained.
> 
> But, I don't only criticise Fedora. When cdrtools is
> insuitable for
> Fedora, then probably may be in rpmfusion repos, and I can
> maintain
> it there. If so, can anyone give me any directions how do
> it?
> 
> Regards, Franta Hanzlik
> -- 

Could this be of help:

http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/distromatic.html?tag=devel&pkg=cdrtools.source

?

Also this 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507108

Whistler maintain(ed)(s)? for fedora cdrtools here:

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=29bdd7826332657e&sc=documents&uc=4&id=29BDD7826332657E!135

Hope this helps!

Regards,



Antonio