From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: 47590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:02:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rbqe2ii.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a6qejuq6.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:54:09 +0300)
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:54:09 +0300
>
>
> In dired-x.el the proprietary program 'unrar' is recommended. Instead
> 'bsdtar -xf' shall be recommended:
>
> Line 916: '("\\.rar\\'" "unrar x")
I use bsdtar as well, but unrar is much more widespread. And it isn't
true that it's proprietary: there's a free software version of unrar,
you can find it on Ubuntu systems, for example. AFAIK, we don't use
any features that the free version doesn't have.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-04 8:54 bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program Jean Louis
2021-04-04 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-04-04 20:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-05 0:20 ` Glenn Morris
2021-04-05 15:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-05 11:21 ` Jean Louis
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