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Re: non-free?



On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 27/03/14 at 20:38 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 10:32 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > 
> > > Nice; if it really works with all RAR 3.0 archives, it might be worth
> > > updating the unrar-free package description, which currently says:
> > > 
> > > Description-en: Unarchiver for .rar files
> > >  Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can't handle some archives in
> > >  the RAR 3.0 format, only the non-free "unrar" package can do that.
> > 
> > Wrong package, you are looking at unrar not unar.
> 
> No, I'm saying that, if unar can open all RAR 3.0 archives, the
> unrar-free package description should probably be updated to point to
> unar rather than unrar.

If unar can open all rar-archives, why not drop unrar and unrar-nonfree
from the archives?  That way we'd be rid of one crippled and one
non-free package, all in one fell swoop :)


Kind regards, David Weinehall
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