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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
@ 2021-04-04  8:54 Jean Louis
  2021-04-04 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jean Louis @ 2021-04-04  8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 47590


In dired-x.el the proprietary program 'unrar' is recommended. Instead
'bsdtar -xf' shall be recommended:

Line 916:   '("\\.rar\\'" "unrar x")
   


In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.4, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2021-04-01 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: 168d2628b233337a1fbf90d05dbcc3fa39f771e7
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
Configured using:
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-- 
Thanks,
Jean Louis

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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
  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
  2021-04-04 20:03   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2021-04-04 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jean Louis; +Cc: 47590

> 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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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
  2021-04-04 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2021-04-04 20:03   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2021-04-05  0:20     ` Glenn Morris
  2021-04-05 11:21     ` Jean Louis
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-04-04 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 47590, Jean Louis

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Yup -- "apt install unrar-free" will install a /usr/bin/unrar that
points to the free unrar.

So I agree that there's nothing to fix here, and I'm closing this bug
report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
  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
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2021-04-05  0:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 47590

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> So I agree that there's nothing to fix here, and I'm closing this bug
> report.

Fair enough, but it's confusing that you then

1) tag it "fixed" (rather than notabug,wontfix)
2) mark it "fixed in Emacs 28.1"

when nothing has changed in Emacs.
I think I've noticed this a few other times as well.





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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
  2021-04-04 20:03   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2021-04-05  0:20     ` Glenn Morris
@ 2021-04-05 11:21     ` Jean Louis
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jean Louis @ 2021-04-05 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 47590

* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> [2021-04-04 23:04]:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yup -- "apt install unrar-free" will install a /usr/bin/unrar that
> points to the free unrar.
> 
> So I agree that there's nothing to fix here, and I'm closing this bug
> report.

Yes, thank you.

I found it now, just that I could not find it in Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.


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Jean

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* bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
  2021-04-05  0:20     ` Glenn Morris
@ 2021-04-05 15:07       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-04-05 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 47590

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

>> So I agree that there's nothing to fix here, and I'm closing this bug
>> report.
>
> Fair enough, but it's confusing that you then
>
> 1) tag it "fixed" (rather than notabug,wontfix)
> 2) mark it "fixed in Emacs 28.1"
>
> when nothing has changed in Emacs.
> I think I've noticed this a few other times as well.

I must have hit the wrong button in debbugs-gnu (or there's a bug there)
-- I meant to just close it without tagging anything.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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