At Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:28:55 +0800, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: > LZH is an archive format which is generated by the lha utility (1). > This format is still popular in Japan, but the lha utility is not a free > software. However, some free softwares which use LZH as their > data format (2) and some free GUI archive file managers (3) > often use fork+exec, popen, or system, to call the > command line program '/usr/bin/lha' to extract the data. > > Therefore I propose a virtual package named 'lha' for those packages who can > provide the functionality of '/usr/bin/lha'. > > Note: > (1) "lha" package in Debian non-free section > (2) "fkiss", "gnomekiss" in Debian > (3) "ark", "file-roller", "krusader" in Debian
The current non-free lha package is based on the original and legitimate MS-DOS version LHa. "LHa" is one of implementations of LZH format archiver. So many LZH archiver/extractor on windows have used other names. We cannot expect each archiver/extrator has the exact same options. Thus I disagreed to use lha as virtual package name. Instead, how about setting "lzh-archiver" as /etc/alternatives for your java-based lzh archiver and my non-free lha package, then modifying the GUI archive file managers to execute lzh-archiver, not lha? -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]