Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:48:50 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1 Message-ID: <20031220154849.GA75289@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20031219105400.GA39759@comp.chem.msu.su>
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--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--
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