Bugzilla Bug 144627

I would like to see use flags like "unrar" "p7zip" "ace" etc.
When somebody wants to emerge file-roller he can then choose whether or not to
pull unrar, p7zip, ace and other archiving programms as dependencies so
file-roller can support those types of archives.

Maybe there is a need to make a virtual for unrar because there is unrar-gpl
and the official unrar. Unrar-gpl should be pulled in as default because it's
open-source software but you could also do "emerge -1 unrar" and then "emerge
file-roller" to have unrar instead of unrar-gpl.

Use flags are not there for adding dependencies that don't affect the emerge
result in any way. Adding such use flags is not appreciated by our QA at all,
since such stuff obviously is not a dependency.

On a side note, we really don't need a virtual for unrar, || ( unrar-gpl unrar
) would work just fine if it's useful in some ebuild.

what would be better is to add some einfo/elog to file-roller to postinst.
the user would be warned that file-roller needs additional programs for runtime
support of some archive format.

*** Bug 169085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

first see http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html

so what about an additional text like this:

file-roller is a frontend for numerous archiving utility, that is why they are
not a dependency of this package. If you want a particular achive format
support, see URL and install the relevant package.

please enhance my words :)

The team has already talked several times about this and no additional use flag
will be added.

Thanks for understanding :)

changing summary so remi doesn't get confused and reopening. We are not talking
about use flag anymore.

The situation is clearly not satisfying and needs something like what has been
done for rhythmbox and bad/ugly plugins.

I've added some of this stuff in the gnome overlay to get feedback

backported Gilles' work to file-roller-2.18.4. Fixed in CVS :)