Archiver packages on FreeBSD CD 1

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:54:00PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 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?

If you look at the print-cdrom-packages script, you'll see that none
of these packages are listed explicitly for disk 1, which means
they're all pulled in by a dependency.

Kris
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