Comment # 7 on bug 1083834 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #6)
> (In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #5)
> > I just fear that this will break *creating* rar archives, i.e. using rar if
> > unar is installed... (didn't test that though)
> 
> And indeed.
> 
> I just installed the latest unar and ark (with this patch) on my Leap 42.3
> system.
> While opening rar archives works now, creating new ones fails with "Adding
> new files is not supported for this archive" (it worked fine before).
> 
> Obviously ark is now preferring the unar plugin for creating RAR archives as
> well, which is of course read-only.

Which sounds like a bug. If a plugin is read-only, it shouldn't be chosen for
write access.

It might be possible to workaround this in an ugly way and combine unar reading
with rar writing in a single plugin...

> So basically this patch just replaces one bug with another one. :-/

A less severe one at least.