ddrescue and dd_rescue

[Andreas Thienemann]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > Only question: what's the policy of fedora-extra with regard to similar 
> > packages? Opinions?
> Very difficult to answer.  I'd say: Choose the superior one.
Difficult to judge.
The dd_rescue/dd_rhelp combo is the one I find most useful. dd_rescue is 
fast and is quite verbose when running, which I find useful.
dd_rhelp adds the missing functionality.

ddrescue has the dd_rhelp functionality folded into a single binary, but 
is a bit less flexible featurewise.

Both tools have their uses and I would be very hard pressed including one 
over the other...

> What makes the case of ddrescue/dd_rescue more difficult is the almost
> equal name. This creates a source of confusion.
Yes. That is an added problem.

Steven Pritchard was kind enough to review all three packages and I'm
currently incorporating some changes with regard to conflicts and provides 
tags.
So personally, I'd suggest adding all three packages to fedora-extras (or 
maybe even jsut two with dd_rhelp folded into the main dd_rescue package) 
and be done with the topic. Let the user choose which package he preferrs.

One strong point of fedora extra is, that we are not limited to offering 
only one word processor, but can offer abiword, xword, yword and ztext at 
the same time.

bye,
 andreas