[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar

[David Seifert]

I'm dropping app-arch/unar, since it was the only ObjC package on my
system. These days, libarchive is IMO a much better choice.

All bugs have been fixed. The upstream isn't gone, but somewhat
unresponsive.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar

[Hanno Böck]

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On Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:56:40 +0100
Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net> wrote:

> app-arch/unar currently seems to be the only free choice for kde-apps/
> kdeutils-meta-19.08.3[rar]:
>         rar? ( || (
>                 app-arch/rar
>                 app-arch/unrar
>                 app-arch/unar
>         ) )

I believe this is obsolete, I can unpack rar with ark and plain
libarchive.

I opened a bug for this, further discussion should go there:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/702426

-- 
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar

[Dennis Schridde]

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On Montag, 9. Dezember 2019 13:03:02 CET Hanno Böck wrote:
> It's an archive unpacker written in objective C, which makes it
> dependency-heavy (particularly requires gcc compiled with objc).
> I originally got interested because it was the only free unpacker
> capable of handling modern rar archives. However libarchive does that
> these days, so I don't see a strong need for unar any more.

Thanks for that hint!

app-arch/unar currently seems to be the only free choice for kde-apps/
kdeutils-meta-19.08.3[rar]:
        rar? ( || (
                app-arch/rar
                app-arch/unrar
                app-arch/unar
        ) )

Does anyone know, does kde-apps/ark (for which kdeutils-meta depends on the 
rar implementations) also support app-arch/libarchive for RAR files?  Is any 
useflag needed to get RAR support in libarchive?

If kde-apps/ark does support unpacking RAR files with app-arch/libarchive, 
could it please be added to that dependency list?  Then app-arch/unar could be 
removed from my system.

--Dennis

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[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-arch/unar

[Hanno Böck]

Hi,

I'm no longer interested in maintaining app-arch/unar.

It's an archive unpacker written in objective C, which makes it
dependency-heavy (particularly requires gcc compiled with objc).
I originally got interested because it was the only free unpacker
capable of handling modern rar archives. However libarchive does that
these days, so I don't see a strong need for unar any more.

There's a bump request, but upstream changed the code structure and
separated out a library, so it's not completely straightforward:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/702024

If you're interested please add yourself to metadata.xml and remove me,
if noone picks it up I'll make it maintainer-needed in a few days.

-- 
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/