On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 04:16:03PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 00:13 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit : > > file-roller seems to have various unpacking tools scattered through > > Depends, Recommends, and Suggests with no obvious pattern. > > > > file-roller: > > > > - Depends on tar (Essential anyway) and p7zip-full (a > > relatively uncommon format, unless file-roller uses its support for > > other archive formats), > > Yes, p7zip is used for 7z, zip, rar, arj and cab, which is why it’s a > reasonable default.
OK, that makes sense; thanks! > > - Recommends lzma (obsolete in favor of xz-utils) and rpm2cpio (by no > > means a more common thing to extract than most of the Suggests), and > > rpm2cpio is for reading RPM files, which are much more common that > whatever is in the suggests (and not handled by p7zip). > > I’m moving lzma to Suggests, thanks for the notice. Ideally file-roller would use xz-utils instead of lzma, but that seems like a separate bug report. > > - Suggests all other unpackers (including things like zip/unzip which > > seem common enough to include in Recommends or Depends if *anything* > > qualifies). > > See above for why zip/unzip is only here. Makes sense. But if you use p7zip for those formats, then why suggest the alternatives at all? - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
