Hello! Thanks for the reply.
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 04 octobre 2008 à 05:19 +0600, Roman Mamedov a écrit : >> The current "Recommends" list is highly questionable, or even >> arbitrary, as it lists "arj genisoimage ncompress rpm >> unace", of which at least arj, unace and rpm are of dubious usefulness >> on a modern Debian system. However, when using >> apt-get, all listed packages are installed in a mandatory way along >> with File-roller itself. > > This may sound surprising, but ARJ and ACE are formats that are still > used nowadays. For unpacking old or received archives - probably, but there is no point in using these formats to create new archives. > As for RPM, I’ll let you search around the web for a while and see if you > don’t find any. RPM is the RedHat package manager format, also used in several other distributions. However I fail to see a use case where user of a Debian system would routinely (or at all) need to manually unpack RPMs. If one needs to install a package made for another system (a dangerous thing to do), there's a tool ("alien") made specifically for that. With respect, Roman. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]