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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 47590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:21:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGrytUCTR+HqprZm@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kglg6lq.fsf@gnus.org>

* 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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-05 11:21 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]

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