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bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded
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Nicolas Petton |
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bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded |
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Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:06:05 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:18:14 +0200
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>> I just installed a patch in master to use unar and lsar.
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>> My patch removes the use of the "unrar-free" binary completely as 1) it
>> is no longer available in Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian and 2) it has been
>> reported not to work properly, but I guess that's up for discussion.
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> Given the troubled history of the Free Software programs available to
> access RAR archives, and its various format versions, I'd prefer that
> we had more than one solution for RAR. Having just one hard-coded
> program sounds like a near-term maintenance headache. Other
> possibilities include unrar-free, GNA's unrar, and bsdtar from
> libarchive. I think we should make this more future-proof. Nicolas,
> would you like to work on that?
Would adding support for (GNA) unrar be enough for you?
If so, I'll gladly add it.
Nico
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