[ale] when is a zip file not a zip file

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:17 -0400, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Chris Ricker wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> >> Sounds like a more comprehensively-packaged Linux distro is in order.
> >>
> >> In Gentoo, "emerge unrar" gets the job done.
> > 
> > It's available for Fedora as part of Livna. It's not in Fedora Core / 
> > Fedora Extras for the usual "its not free software" reasons, something 
> > Gentoo doesn't particularly care about....
> 
> That's a sweeping statement.  If portage is used to install software on 
> Gentoo, how else would you have unrar installed?  It's installed 
> unmodified adhering to the license agreement.  It's try before you buy 
> software, how should it be tried?  I might be wrong about something, but 
> a general statement like that...

RedHat (and it's derivatives except for Mandrake/Mandriva) have a
"thing" for the GPL. As rar is a seldom used packager anymore and the
license is not GPL, it doesn't make the radar for RH based distros.

BTW: RAR is not a new tool. It predates the zip archive by a lot. It's
strength was found as a tool to send large files conveniently broken
into manageable chunks. So a 12 MB file would get rar'ed into 10 1.2MB
files and an "info" file and then easily reassembled on the receivers
side.
> 
> > 
> > See <http://rpm.livna.org/> to get support added to yum for the non-free / 
> > patent-encumbered stuff
> > 
> > later,
> > chris
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