Ark - 4.14.1 Unar/Unrar

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 22 15:20:50 UTC 2014


Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 22.09.2014 um 12:20 schrieb Rex Dieter:
>> Colin J Thomson wrote:
>>> I stumbled across this small issue today when opening a rar file
>>> directly from say Dolphin Ark would fail with an error. Using Unrar from
>>> a shell the file would unpack fine.
>>>
>>> Looking at the Ark-4.14 changelog I see support for Unar had been added
>>> which I did not have installed. Since installing Unar all is good now.
>>>
>>> Maybe with this new change Unar should be pulled in automatically?
>> 
>> Good idea, I can look into adding that, sure.
>> 
>> Note to other folks who'd responded that unar != unrar  :)
> 
> indeed
> 
>> Adding this is another ~4mb worth of dependencies:
>> Installing:
>> unar               x86_64  1.8.1-5.fc21  fedora      2.0 M
>> Installing for dependencies:
>> gnustep-base-libs  x86_64  1.24.6-5.fc21 fedora      1.7 M
>> libobjc            x86_64  4.9.1-9.fc21  updates-testing 60 k
> 
> 12 MB on disk
> 
> i would prefer not have it as dep, not missing it for 8 years now
> who knows what "gnustep-base-libs" pulls in a year or two

Good point, I'll see if I can make this more modular somehow.

-- rex



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