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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kfloppy
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-07-28 4:44:29
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just had a look at kfloppy. We always viewed kfloppy as
> problematic, because it contains code with unclear copyrights.
>
> After having had a look, I must say that kfloppy is
> problematic for technical reasons: It contains the code for
> fdformat and mkdosfs, just slightly altered. This is complete
> nonsense. These tools are pretty much standard on linux, and
> if not, it is a lot better to ask the user to get a current
> version of these tools.
>
> Unless someone has an explanations why we duplicate these
> tools, I will throw them out of kfloppy and make kfloppy work
> with the standard tools. That may make the progressbar a bit
> slower, but will remove all dependencies to kernel internals

I'm sure we can supply a patch to the kfloppy author for a config flag to add 
more verbose progress info.

Cheers,
Waldo
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