Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 16:02:50 -0400 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files with file-roller Message-ID: <1114977770.766.6.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <1114977190.60197.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1114976101.5448.31.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> <1114977190.60197.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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. > Probably just coincidence but I saw the question three times last month. One being me of course. > > > > How do I open .rar files with file-roller? > > > > 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. > > Note: this is only half the battle. You also need the archivers/unrar > port installed as well. > I took a closer look and yup, unrar is needed too. Odd because I had problems with .rar files until rar was installed even with unrar installed. > > > > 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. > Only reason it came up for me is because rar files are still popular on P2P networks. (I swear I wasn't downloading the entire Judas Priest album collection.) Stuff like lha, arj, and arc I haven't seen in ages but I still see rar used a lot. > Joe > > > > > > > Tom > > -- BSD# Project - Porting Mono to FreeBSD http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD
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