unrar-free

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:53:14PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> $ aptitude show p7zip-rar | grep "extract RAR"
>  p7zip-rar provides a module for p7zip-full to make 7z able to extract RAR
> 
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/p/p7zip-rar/p7zip-rar_4.55~ds.1-2/p7zip-rar.copyright
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/p/p7zip/p7zip_4.57~dfsg.1-1/p7zip-full.copyright
> 
> $ aptitude show p7zip-rar | grep Size:
> Uncompressed Size: 160k
> Compressed Size: 48.5k
> $ aptitude show p7zip-full | grep Size:
> Uncompressed Size: 3076k
> Compressed Size: 1180k
> 
> 
> if i understand correctly p7zip could be shipped instead?

Interesting.  Does it support modern archives, like unrar-free doesn't?

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 - mdz