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lumiwa

Member

Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

rar - unrar

Hi!

I have one question about rar - unrar. RAR is not free and there are UNRAR.
Today I tried pacman -S comix and I got:

cannot resolve dependecies for "comix": "rar" is not in the package set.

Thanks.

Mitja

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,245

Re: rar - unrar

Looks like willysilly hasn't updated the package yet.
A workaround would be to download the pkgbuild and install.diff , change the dependency yourself and build it with makepkg.

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Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: rar - unrar

How about having rar as a provides=() for unrar?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: rar - unrar

How about having rar as a provides=() for unrar?

IMO, that would be a misuse of the provides field. unrar can only uncompress rar archive while rar can also create them. Therefore, unrar doesn't really provide rar.

Did someone sent  an email/PM to willysilly to inform him about that issue?