[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar
I'm dropping app-arch/unar, since it was the only ObjC package on my system. These days, libarchive is IMO a much better choice. All bugs have been fixed. The upstream isn't gone, but somewhat unresponsive.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar
On Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:56:40 +0100 Dennis Schridde wrote: > app-arch/unar currently seems to be the only free choice for kde-apps/ > kdeutils-meta-19.08.3[rar]: > rar? ( || ( > app-arch/rar > app-arch/unrar > app-arch/unar > ) ) I believe this is obsolete, I can unpack rar with ark and plain libarchive. I opened a bug for this, further discussion should go there: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702426 -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ pgpbr0bbWbkcD.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar
On Montag, 9. Dezember 2019 13:03:02 CET Hanno Böck wrote: > It's an archive unpacker written in objective C, which makes it > dependency-heavy (particularly requires gcc compiled with objc). > I originally got interested because it was the only free unpacker > capable of handling modern rar archives. However libarchive does that > these days, so I don't see a strong need for unar any more. Thanks for that hint! app-arch/unar currently seems to be the only free choice for kde-apps/ kdeutils-meta-19.08.3[rar]: rar? ( || ( app-arch/rar app-arch/unrar app-arch/unar ) ) Does anyone know, does kde-apps/ark (for which kdeutils-meta depends on the rar implementations) also support app-arch/libarchive for RAR files? Is any useflag needed to get RAR support in libarchive? If kde-apps/ark does support unpacking RAR files with app-arch/libarchive, could it please be added to that dependency list? Then app-arch/unar could be removed from my system. --Dennis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar
Hi, I'm no longer interested in maintaining app-arch/unar. It's an archive unpacker written in objective C, which makes it dependency-heavy (particularly requires gcc compiled with objc). I originally got interested because it was the only free unpacker capable of handling modern rar archives. However libarchive does that these days, so I don't see a strong need for unar any more. There's a bump request, but upstream changed the code structure and separated out a library, so it's not completely straightforward: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702024 If you're interested please add yourself to metadata.xml and remove me, if noone picks it up I'll make it maintainer-needed in a few days. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/