media-video/dvdrip is dependent on app-arch/rar. there is no alternative which you can choose in the preferences, so it is neeeded for sure Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge dvdrip 2. setup the preferences 3. choice rar needed 4. solution: emerge rar
According to http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/install.cipp, rar is not mandatory.
in dvdrip prefs, there's also xine and mplayer solution a: putting rar, xine and mplayer into rdepend. solution b: closing this bug
*** Bug 61206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 164610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Furthermore, I can't add in rar, because the max version dvd::rip will support is 2.99, which isn't even in the tree.
(In reply to comment #5) > Furthermore, I can't add in rar, because the max version dvd::rip will support > is 2.99, which isn't even in the tree. > That is strange I got dvdrip working with app-arch/rar-3.5.1. I emerged it afterwards after getting an error message in dvdrip. Since I emerged rar all works fine now.