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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 47590@debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Subject: bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 22:03:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kglg6lq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831rbqe2ii.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:02:29 +0300")

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





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-04 20:03 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 [this message]
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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