Bug#717574: file-roller: please drop "unar" to Suggests; pulls GNUstep in

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.07.2013 16:44, schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> Package: file-roller
> Version: 3.8.3-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> file-roller recently added a Recommends on "unar" which is undesirable
> because it pulls in too many GNUstep packages and that needlessly fills
> disk space with yet-an-other desktop's core components. Please consider
> either dropping "unar" to Suggests or using another equivalent that is
> purely CLI-based as the backend. Thanks!

We switched from unar to unrar (which is in non-free) some time ago.
So either alternative isn't great.
Having no rar support ootb isn't great either.

The best solution, which was suggested some time ago imho, was to add
rar support to libarchive.

But I don't know the current status of that effort.

Michael


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