From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MxX-0004Sd-1J for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:47:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MxT-0001qe-0n for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:47:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MxS-0001qL-RP for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:47:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e7MxS-00021H-FK for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:47:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#28972] [PATCH] gnu: Remove unrar. Resent-Message-ID: References: <20171024190743.t7yhrfcrltrjlbt4@abyayala> <874lqouz9o.fsf@hyperbola.info> From: Ricardo Wurmus In-reply-to: <874lqouz9o.fsf@hyperbola.info> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:30:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87zi8fb8q4.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira Cc: 28972@debbugs.gnu.org Adonay Felipe Nogueira writes: > Perhaps The Unarchiver (unar, no R in the middle)? > > See I tried packaging this once, but it is quite difficult as it depends on an Objective C compiler (which is currently broken in Guix due to the fact that GCC doesn’t find it) and GNUstep (which is not fully packaged yet). I agree with Leo to remove the outdated unrar package. Waiting for the alternative to be packaged would not be reasonable, given the size of the task. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net