Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 07:58:33 (+0530), shirish शिरीष wrote: > On 21/08/2018, Reco wrote: > >> Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have > >> unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I > >> do get the idea that we should have alternatives

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 07:58:33AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: So the question is, are there any corner cases where unrar-free excels As I suggested before, compatability with existing scripts is one reason--unar has incompatible command line syntax. (Although along those lines, having

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 21/08/2018, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:26:53PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Please CC me as I'm not following the list per-se (due to traffic >> constraints and just inability to manage information flow.) >> >> Does anybody know why

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:26:53PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > > Please CC me as I'm not following the list per-se (due to traffic > constraints and just inability to manage information flow.) > > Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have >

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:09:21PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Michael Stone (2018-08-21): Read more closely. :) Please elaborate. He didn't say "unrar"

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-08-21 20:09 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Stone (2018-08-21): >> Read more closely. :) > > Please elaborate. unrar-free ≠ unrar $ apt-cache show unrar-free | grep Section Section: utils $ apt-cache show unrar | grep Section Section: non-free/utils Cheers, Sven

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Stone (2018-08-21): > Read more closely. :) Please elaborate. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:01:19PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: shirish शिरीष (2018-08-21): Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I do get the idea that we should have alternatives for any

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:26:53PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I do get the idea that we should have alternatives for any application or is there something

Re: what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread Nicolas George
shirish शिरीष (2018-08-21): > Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have > unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I > do get the idea that we should have alternatives for any application > or is there something more that I don't know ? The

what is special about unrar-free when we have unar ?

2018-08-21 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Please CC me as I'm not following the list per-se (due to traffic constraints and just inability to manage information flow.) Does anybody know why unrar-free is till in Debian repo. when we have unar which does the same or more (support for rarv5 among others) . I do get the idea that