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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:40:29AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Lars Müller
wrote: Well, it is not my fault when people at Suse neither understand why special privileges are needed, nor introduce a non-removable method into their OS base that would ppermit to get these special privileges without being root.
a) cdrtools isn't part of the default software set included with the openSUSE standard/ default software repositories. It's neither in the oss, the non-oss nor in the update repository of openSUSE versions 12.1, 12.2 or Factory. With a default openSUSE install cdrtools aren't available or visible to the users.
Why isn't this the case? This has been promised since 2009, why didn't it happen?
Nobody ever promised this. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html explains why this all happend and I unfortunately missed to quote this article with my reply. Please read the details again below the section 'Forking cdrtools as cdrkit'. ### partial quote start Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license. The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF itself says that this is the case as do people who helped draft the CDDL. One current and one former Sun employee visited the annual Debian conference in Mexico in 2006. Danese Cooper clearly stated there that the CDDL was intentionally modelled on the MPL in order to make it GPL- incompatible. For everyone who wants to hear this first-hand, we have video from that talk available at [2]. ... [1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php [2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-... ### partial quote end There is nothing further to say about this unfortunate issue. Try to work on it as suggested with my first reply. Good luck! Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany