From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 12:40:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF59B16A4CE; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3D943D45; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 248E766BAA; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:48:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:48:50 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Yar Tikhiy Message-ID: <20031220154849.GA75289@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ibTvN161/egqYuK8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:40:19 -0000 --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:54:00PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > Today I was surprised to find out that the collection of archiver > packages on FreeBSD 4.9 installation disk 1 was rather strange: It > consisted of fossil ones like "zoo" and "lha", and of not-so-widely-used > items like "lzop." The 600-kilobyte "fileroller" is questionable, > too, though I suspect it's included because of Gnome. In fact, I > was looking for "unrar" and failed to find it there. Perhaps I'm > missing some important point, but I've been sure that packages on > disk 1 should be _really_ demanded ones. Among archivers, I'd vote > for "unarj," "unrar," and "unzip" (the latter is the only one already > supplied.) Is it time to review the disk 1 archiver package > collection with respect to people's modern needs? If you look at the print-cdrom-packages script, you'll see that none of these packages are listed explicitly for disk 1, which means they're all pulled in by a dependency. Kris --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/5G9hWry0BWjoQKURAg02AKDb2IRLHRvwpDJSPMzKXRT+J/QSPgCg0nbg 4dwPmYJQ5UtHogmohv1+65s= =96m3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ibTvN161/egqYuK8--