Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1

Yar Tikhiy yar at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 19 02:54:11 PST 2003


Hi folks,

Today I was surprised to find out that the collection of archiver
packages on FreeBSD 4.9 installation disk 1 was rather strange: It
consisted of fossil ones like "zoo" and "lha", and of not-so-widely-used
items like "lzop."  The 600-kilobyte "fileroller" is questionable,
too, though I suspect it's included because of Gnome.  In fact, I
was looking for "unrar" and failed to find it there.  Perhaps I'm
missing some important point, but I've been sure that packages on
disk 1 should be _really_ demanded ones.  Among archivers, I'd vote
for "unarj," "unrar," and "unzip" (the latter is the only one already
supplied.)  Is it time to review the disk 1 archiver package
collection with respect to people's modern needs?

-- 
Yar


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