Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 15:53:10 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files with file-roller Message-ID: <1114977190.60197.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1114976101.5448.31.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> References: <1114976101.5448.31.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org>
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--=-M0sWamJ95U9EH0/H3aOt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:35 -0400, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Questions about how to open .rar files in file-roller have come up on > #FreeBSD-Gnome a few time lately. Would something like this be useful > in the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ? Really? This is the first I've heard it mentioned. Admittedly I haven't been following as closely lately. >=20 > How do I open .rar files with file-roller? >=20 > To open a .rar file with file-roller the rar port (archivers/rar) needs > to be installed at run time. The file-roller port does not need to be > rebuilt after installing rar. =20 Note: this is only half the battle. You also need the archivers/unrar port installed as well. >=20 > Further, the rar port cannot be included as a run time dependency for > file-roller due to its license which prevents a FreeBSD package from > being created. The unrar port has a less restrictive license and can be > packaged but it's binary is not used by file-roller for .rar support. Not only is this correct, but we decided including every possible archiver as a fileroller RUN_DEPENDS was just ridiculous. People would build what they need to handle the files they use. FreeBSD includes a number of reasonable defaults. Joe >=20 >=20 > Tom >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-M0sWamJ95U9EH0/H3aOt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCdTOmb2iPiv4Uz4cRAvUbAJ4vsyeIOQCBk8GgATPEM5CvpPH2XACeLtGI DjHarQEbShOP0Ydh6HRPvqA= =Qys/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M0sWamJ95U9EH0/H3aOt--
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