On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 1:09 PM Carlos E. R.
There is nothing evil in the shareware "rar". It is not even a corporation. And in fact, you can cheat and forget to pay, the program keeps working, it doesn't check.
well whatever I am speaking about running only oss on oss platform. say what you will do wonder why we are even using suse leap here to begin with? if it suffices that someone simply states, nothing bad happened so far, or nothing bad happend, for 1, 10, 100 or thousand years. doesnt put it into the same league as oss.
It is just a programmer that had a bright idea for compressing files almost 30 years ago, and wanted to get some money for his work, in a polite manner. He even published on the public domain some of this code and methods, so that Linux has the free "unrar". Definitely not evil. Nothing will happen to your machine for installing rar from packman or from the developer site.
the 7zip developer did something with its source code, evolved it, fixed it, incorporated newer rar5 file format capability, reverse engineered or however they achived it, as 7zip version 19.00 does unpack and handle rar5 fileformat properly. the current stuff shipping with leap 15.2, that 7zip 16.02something doesnt handle it. also I am not an expert what software component, library or api or methods do enable that kde gui ark or something to handle the various archive formats. maybe it has a rar library of its own, maybe it does use something that the 7zip 16.02something package comes with or anything in between. unfortunately I need to use wine for such tasks. but I am glad that worked. but at least thats open source 7zip windows version on open source wine on open source opensuse. and this is the only thing that currently works when sticking to oss and not infesting a happy oss system with non-oss, unfree and nontrustable software components. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org