I always see after emerging ark the postinst message "For handling rar archives, install app-arch/unar". I have not installed this package, but ark was able to handle rar archives nevertheless. After removing app-arch/rar, ark reports "No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type." So please improve ebuild, that the above postinst message is not displayed when app-arch/rar is already installed. There is a global useflag "rar", which could be added to ark ebuild to pull in the required dep. Furthermore, I would prefer app-arch/rar over app-arch/unar, since in most cases unar requires a rebuild of gcc because of an additional useflag. emerge -pv unar These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-6.4.0-r1:6.4.0::gentoo USE="cxx fortran (multilib) nls nptl objc* openmp pch (pie) sanitize ssp vtv (-altivec) (-awt) -cilk -debug -doc (-fixed-point) (-gcj) -go -graphite (-hardened) (-jit) (-libssp) -mpx -objc++ -objc-gc -pgo -regression-test -vanilla" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] gnustep-base/gnustep-make-2.6.8::gentoo USE="native-exceptions -debug -doc (-libobjc2)" 579 KiB [ebuild N ] gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.24.9-r1::gentoo USE="gnutls icu libffi ssl zeroconf -debug -doc -libressl" 3.478 KiB [ebuild N ] app-arch/unar-1.10.1::gentoo 2.493 KiB Total: 4 packages (3 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 6.549 KiB The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by app-arch/unar-1.10.1::gentoo # required by unar (argument) >=gnustep-base/gnustep-make-2.6.8 native-exceptions # required by gnustep-base/gnustep-make-2.6.8::gentoo # required by gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.24.9-r1::gentoo # required by app-arch/unar-1.10.1::gentoo # required by unar (argument) >=sys-devel/gcc-6.4.0-r1 objc
@kde what is your opinion on this?
From README.packagers: * unrar: to open and extract rar archives [RECOMMENDED, non-free] * rar: to create and edit rar archives * lsar, unar: to open and extract rar archives [RECOMMENDED, free] Since unar is the recommended *free* implemention I don't see us move away from that. We won't be adding a USE flag either since this is about optional runtime dependencies and ark has quite a few of those. What we can do is improve the postinst message.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fbe0dd176782e4304cbb10b5a5d853a72f590ddf commit fbe0dd176782e4304cbb10b5a5d853a72f590ddf Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-05-23 14:25:49 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-05-23 14:59:28 +0000 kde-apps/ark: Improve rar archive postinst info Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/650268 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.38, Repoman-2.3.9 kde-apps/ark/ark-17.12.3.ebuild | 18 +++++++++--------- kde-apps/ark/ark-18.04.1.ebuild | 18 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=37b8a677234aac131c7cb21781d88b7df48bc6eb commit 37b8a677234aac131c7cb21781d88b7df48bc6eb Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-05-23 14:25:11 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-05-23 14:28:32 +0000 kde-apps/ark: Improve rar archive postinst info Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/650268 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.38, Repoman-2.3.9 kde-apps/ark/ark-18.04.49.9999.ebuild | 18 +++++++++--------- kde-apps/ark/ark-9999.ebuild | 18 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
