svn commit: r488656 - head/archivers/ark

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi Max

I would like to have the KDE packages to be the most useful they can, i.e.
"batteries included".
People who want to have a limited set can still toggle them off, but those
that just use the
packages will get a full-fledged usable desktop from the moment they pkg
install it.

I was scratching my head at whether to enable rar by default or not,
because of the licensing
issue, but as its license terms allow its redistribution, I found it to be
acceptable -- I'm not a lawyer [tm].
If its not, we can revert that one.

I don't find package messages sufficient, the easiest example for this is
   "why don't I have any sound in KDE".
While the pkg-message of phonon clearly states that a backend is needed.



mfg Tobias

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 00:03, Max Brazhnikov <makc at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi, Tobias!
>
> On суббота, 29 декабря 2018 г. 6:43:53 UTC Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> > Author: tcberner
> > Date: Sat Dec 29 06:43:53 2018
> > New Revision: 488656
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/488656
> >
> > Log:
> >   archivers/ark: enable options by default
>
> The reason was to make the package as light as possible and allow users
> install
> additional packages they need. That why KDE ports had all optional runtime
> deps
> disabled by default. There is another problem with this particular case:
> now
> ark depends on binary port with non-free license (archivers/rar) and on
> archivers/unrar (also with restrictive license), which I find less usefull
> than unrar-iconv.
>
> >   - an archiver that cannot handle archives by default is not great
>
> Perhaps pkg-message with advice would be sufficient?
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
>
>