From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 52109@debbugs.gnu.org, Foo Chuan Wei <chuanwei.foo@hotmail.com>
Subject: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:41:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8ae40730ee3b189fff6b550003434bfbb83e63a.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <325c0ef4-63ad-b45d-96ae-2cf248c37548@disroot.org>
Am Mittwoch, dem 04.01.2023 um 00:32 -0500 schrieb kiasoc5:
> On 1/3/23 19:57, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> >
> > While I appreciate your concern, I don't think it is a problem to
> > have unrar-free in GNU Guix; it is free software and respects the
> > GNU FSDG, as far as I can tell
> Debian and Fedora, whose package guidelines are generally free-
> software friendly (with some exceptions), include unrar-free.
>
> https://repology.org/project/unrar-free/versions
Neither Debian nor Fedora are recommended GNU distros. As for
Trisquel, which is, note how severely outdated the version there is.
More importantly,
Am Dienstag, dem 03.01.2023 um 19:57 -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> Since the program uses libarchive, it would think it supports the
> same features as libarchive itself. Its value is in providing a
> simpler to use front-end CLI.
Yes, the supported features are exactly the libarchive feature set.
However, I would argue that the value of providing this "simpler to use
front-end" is in fact a negative one. For one, bsdtar's CLI is not
that complicated, but what's more, some programs like file-roller
(which let's be honest, the uninitiated user is more likely to use than
either CLI) have an escape hatch for non-libarchive implementations of
unrar. Using this escape hatch to sneak in libarchive is plain silly
:)
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-04 19:42 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 [this message]
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
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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