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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: 52109@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
	zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>, kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
	Foo Chuan Wei <chuanwei.foo@hotmail.com>
Subject: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:07:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8CSohf7OZt/Yzs8@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ad22b3194af69f3b8db5e471a1f4ced2118590f.camel@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 09:29:09PM +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Now, I hope I'm not exaggerating when I say that most computer users
> use libarchive-based (un)archiving tools already. [3]
> Having observed this, I see little meaning in having a frontend, which
> per its name promises to open archives that their existing tooling
> can't handle, only to then reveal that it was the existing tooling all
> along.  If it didn't have the name that suggested it was able to do
> that, no one would expect it to, and upon encountering an archive that
> libarchive can't handle, they could go "well, fuck those rar guys, I
> have better things to do", or they could try and figure out what's
> wrong and contribute a fix (not that a fix is easily contributed given
> the nature of this bug, but somewhere along their journey they'd notice
> that rar is proprietary garbage and not fault libarchive too hard for
> not handling it).  Because unrar-free does have a name that suggests
> it's able to unrar those things, however, they will inevitably feel
> wronged no matter what and rather think "well, fuck unrar-free, I want
> unrar-nonfree".

In order to understand your points better, I'd like to summarize them in
my own words. Please tell me if I get it wrong.

Your objections to the inclusion of this package are that:

1) We already have a package with equivalent functionality
2) The name of this package, unrar-free, might lead users to choose a
nonfree program due to similarity. Concretely, the nonfree program is
called "unrar".

Is that correct?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-12 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-25 15:19 [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Foo Chuan Wei
2021-11-25 19:49 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04  0:57   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-04  5:32     ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-04 19:41       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 20:21         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-06 17:46           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-10 16:47             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-11 22:31               ` zimoun
2023-01-12  6:22                 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12  7:36                   ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-01-12 20:29                     ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12 21:54                       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 23:07                       ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2023-01-13  5:19                         ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-13 15:20                       ` [bug#52109] How to resolve? (Re: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.) Simon Tournier
2023-01-13 18:18                         ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16  9:46                           ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-16 13:56                             ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 16:38                               ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-21 16:09                                 ` [bug#52109] Mention bsdcat, bsdcpio and bsdtar in description of libarchive zimoun
2023-01-21 17:59                                   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:02                                     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 15:09                                     ` zimoun
2023-01-22 17:44                                       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-22 19:36                                         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-23  7:45                                         ` zimoun
2023-01-23 19:29                                           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:00                                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 14:56                                     ` zimoun
2023-01-22 19:27                                       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 12:54                   ` [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Leo Famulari
2023-01-12 20:49                     ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 22:32         ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-13 18:29 ` bug#52109: " Leo Famulari

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