Some stats: .7z - 4 packages .rar - 5 packages .lha/.lzh - unused .lzma - ~13 packages (I ran out of fingers ;-)) I think we could kill at least the first three, either removing them entirely in a future EAPI, or requesting use of unpacker.eclass via tree policy. Why? My main argument is that at least the two middle formats are rather baroque and have non-free dependencies. In the rare occurrence of actually having to install an ebuild using one of those formats, I end up having to install additional programs while I already have other (apparently free) programs capable of unpacking them. With those formats, I think unpacker.eclass is a better solution as it lets us easily adjust dependency lists and support alternative software. Keeping .lzma is probably fine as I don't expect xz-utils to remove support for it anytime soon.
There is also .Z which is used by 18 packages, and is handled by gzip. I would suggest that we keep both .Z and .lzma. No strong opinion about the other three.
As a matter of fact, the devmanual says that .rar must not be used: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/other-formats/#rar-files ".rar files must be repackaged locally into a .tar.bz2 file."
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) > As a matter of fact, the devmanual says that .rar must not be used: > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/other- > formats/#rar-files > > ".rar files must be repackaged locally into a .tar.bz2 file." That's not going to work for mirror-restricted files though.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=9ea780739f2489611da13223acf87ce3780bef6a commit 9ea780739f2489611da13223acf87ce3780bef6a Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-05-12 12:19:15 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-05-24 04:35:28 +0000 Remove unpack support for 7z, lha and rar in EAPI 8 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690968 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> bin/eapi.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ bin/phase-helpers.sh | 26 +++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=7ecef5fa690f1fcff2c615e4ea757d629a7bbdcf commit 7ecef5fa690f1fcff2c615e4ea757d629a7bbdcf Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-12-24 21:50:30 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-06-05 08:55:41 +0000 EAPI 8 removes .7z, .rar, .lha unpack support Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/690968 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> eapi-differences.tex | 10 ++++++++++ pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
