Bug 702426

Summary:	kde-apps/kdeutils-meta: No extra tools needed for rar support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2019-12-10 10:35:56 UTC

kdeutils-meta has an optional dependency on various rar unpacking tools with the rar useflag:

	rar? ( || (
		app-arch/rar
		app-arch/unrar
		app-arch/unar
	) )


I believe this is obsolete. ark uses libarchive by default and can unpack rar files (including the latest format rar v5) with that. So unrar or unar aren't necessary to have rar unpacking support. (Only for creating rar files app-arch/rar would be needed, but unrar/unar wouldn't help.)

Comment 1 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2019-12-12 10:11:06 UTC

Sorry, I was wrong on this. I tested with actual unrar installed and thought it worked through libarchive.

It turns out the libarchive plugin doesn't support rar. There was an upstream bug which was closed as wontfix:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350054

This has been a couple of years ago, so re-discussing this with upstream may make sense, but in any case there's nothing for gentoo to do right now.