Bug#525140: [brasero] Should recommend or depend on 'cdrdao'

[Joerg Schilling]

You wrote:


>My original problem was that I could not get brasero to burn an ISO 
>(with TOC) image of an audio CD. Eventually I discovered that it works 
>if cdrdao is installed (but only v 1.2.2-16, no later, but I think 
>that's a bug in cdrdao's drivers and my particular hardware). Without 
>cdrdao installed, the burn button was simply greyed out, with no info as 
>to why.

>This is relevant:
>"Re: what is the internal priority for brasero when select between 
>cdrecord/cdrdao/cdrttool"
>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/brasero-list/2008-July/msg00017.html


just a note:

The best audio quality is achived when using cdrecord (cdrtools).

The second best choice may be cdrdao but note that cdrdao is not maintained 
anymore since 5 years. There have been a few bug fixes since then but no nore.

libburnia has other problems:

1)	It is non-portable and thus limits portability of brasewro

2)	It depends on a Linux privileges problem and will force 
	other platforms to run brasero as root if it may be ported.

cdrecord is the best way to deal with this as it implements a clean separation 
between the privileged task of sending SCSI commands and a complex and thus 
hard to review GUI code.

wodim is unmaintained, just represents an old (4+ years old) state of cdrtools
and wodim cannot be legally distributed because of Copyright and GPL problems.
wodim should have the lowest priority.


Jörg

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