On 18/10/12 06:46, Daniel Martà wrote:
Hello Bryan,
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:42:03PM -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote:
I think it makes sense to remove both the unrar and rar nonfree
programs from the nonfree repo in either Wheezy or Wheezy+1. If
not, we should investigate why so many users are installing
unrar/rar. Unrar has a number of Dependants that pull it in. Many
of them I don't understand why (Evince, Okular).
That being said, I suppose that's the reason why unrar-nonfree is
still in the repos. And that would also explain why Evince, Okular
and other programs prefer the nonfree package; because it can open
every .rar file, not just the unprotected ones. Though things might
have changed lately and this reasoning may be now obsolete - please
let me know if that's the case.
The case for the non-free unrar decreases significantly, if there are
less scenarios for which it is used.
How many people are using password-protected RAR archives?
Bryan Quigley wrote:
Found the answer. It's for a cbr comic file. Checking the source
evince supports calling the following external programs to decompress
a "comic" file: RARLABS (nonfree), GNA UNRAR, UNZIP, P7ZIP, TAR
Could Evince and Okular be modified to use unar instead of unrar? I
don't know. But if Debian removed unrar, there *might* be more reason
for upstream to change.
Andrew.
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