Comment # 8 on bug 1083834 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #7)
> Which sounds like a bug. If a plugin is read-only, it shouldn't be chosen
> for write access.

Sure.
But AFAIK (judging from reading related upstream bug reports recently), this
would need a major redesign of ark's internals... 

> > So basically this patch just replaces one bug with another one. :-/
> 
> A less severe one at least.

Agreed.

Personally I still think that unar shouldn't replace unrar if it isn't a
drop-in replacement though, which it obviously isn't.