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bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of propri
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program |
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Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:02:29 +0300 |
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:54:09 +0300
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> In dired-x.el the proprietary program 'unrar' is recommended. Instead
> 'bsdtar -xf' shall be recommended:
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> Line 916: '("\\.rar\\'" "unrar x")
I use bsdtar as well, but unrar is much more widespread. And it isn't
true that it's proprietary: there's a free software version of unrar,
you can find it on Ubuntu systems, for example. AFAIK, we don't use
any features that the free version doesn't have.