Am 2005-05-22 14:36:50, schrieb Jeroen van Wolffelaar: > My rationale to do this, is: > > - woody shipped with a non-free unrar named 'unrar', and it worked OK. > - the free version is not functionally equivalent yet, of the .rar files > in the wild, I couldn't actually find a single one that was > unpackeable with the free unrar. Me too :-) > - So, it's too late now to have sarge ship with a free alternative, > because development of that one simply hasn't reached a functionally > (nearly-?) equivalent version. For etch, let's see, but for sarge, > let's just maintain the situation as it was in woody: a non-free > 'unrar' for people not objecting to non-free who want to unrar files. Why not ship SARGE with unrar-nonfree and provide a virtualpackage "unrar" which point to the renamed one ? > Once the free unrar matured enough, it can probably ultimately replace Maybe in ETCH. > unrar (again), but until that time, I really do believe the free unrar SARGE $USER are using now "unrar-nonfree" and in ETCH we can remove the virtual-package "unrar". > Thanks, > --Jeroen Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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