From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <831rbqe2ii.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a6qejuq6.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5107"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 47590@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 04 13:03:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0XE-0001BY-HA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 13:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50664 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0XD-0002e2-Jq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0X1-0002dv-Sz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0X0-0001f9-D9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0X0-0004vl-Ae for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47590 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 47590-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47590.161753416518923 (code B ref 47590); Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47590) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2021 11:02:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34946 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0Wi-0004v8-Qz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56640) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0Wh-0004uq-Av for 47590@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0Wc-0001Ro-1N; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4691 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lT0Wa-0002rJ-Gd; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:02:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86a6qejuq6.fsf@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:54:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:203531 Archived-At: > From: Jean Louis > 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.