[aur-general] The Unarchiver and provides field

Cédric Girard girard.cedric at gmail.com
Mon May 23 04:36:38 EDT 2011


2011/5/23 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I'm maintaining The Unarchiver PKGBUILD [1] in the AUR. The Unarchiver is
> an objective-c application for uncompressing archive file. This is AFAIK the
> only free implementation of RARv3 format.
>
> As this application provides an unrar functionnality, does it make sense to
> add a "provides=('unrar')" field in the PKGBUILD? The Unarchiver is not a
> drop-in replacement for the "unrar" command. The binary are not the same and
> the syntax is different.
>
>
[1]  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47977

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Cédric Girard


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