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Bug 303617

Summary: net-nntp/hellanzb-0.13-r7 could depend on || ( app-arch/{,un}rar{,-gpl} )
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Carps <Carpo78>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: VERIFIED CANTFIX    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Carps 2010-02-05 19:34:03 UTC
Could some dev change the requirement of hellanzb to use app-arch/unrar-gpl instead of app-arch/unrar-3.8.5 as this will resolve a block, as hellanzb wants unrar-3.8.5 and other apps use unrar-gpl.

This causes a block to be thrown up

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge hellanzb
2.
3.
Comment 1 Peter Gantner (a.k.a. nephros) 2010-02-07 19:20:27 UTC
No.

app-arch/unrar-gpl cannot unpack any recent .rar files. It will also break portage unpack() if it is installed and used to unpack such a file.

You should uninstall -gpl for now and install app-arch/unrar or app-arch/rar instead.

Other apps (e.g. mplayer) should have deps like:
     || ( app-arch/unrar-gpl  app-arch/unrar app-arch/rar ) 
so should be fine if -gpl is missing.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-02-09 17:07:24 UTC
Please reopen this bug report after arguing to the contrary of the position of comment #1 (which sounds plausible to me).