[arch-dev-public] Inclusion of RAR

[Ray Rashif]

OK it's all good. The author seems pretty cool about it. See forwarded
message below for the final conversation.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eugene Roshal <...>
Date: 4 January 2011 17:21
Subject: Re: Fwd: Redistribution of RAR for Linux in binary package form
To: Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org>


Hello,

> - we add files required by our package manager (such as a .PKGINFO)
> - we move around files (to fit our distribution)
> - we don't distribute some files not needed by end-users (like
> makefile and rar_static)

This is ok. It is allowed to remove makefile and rar_static, if they
are not suitable or needed in your Linux distribution. But all other
files must be included.

Eugene

> Thank you so much. Here's a rundown of the packaging once again:

> - we add files required by our package manager (such as a .PKGINFO)
> - we move around files (to fit our distribution)
> - we don't distribute some files not needed by end-users (like
> makefile and rar_static)

> Here is an unofficial buildscript maintained by a user (not an
> official packager): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rar/rar/PKGBUILD

> If we brought it on to our repositories for official redistribution
> the main differences from the above script would be:

> - we would INCLUDE unrar (and conflict with the package 'unrar' which
> we already have)
> - we would NOT INCLUDE rar_static
> - we would provide a binary package instead of just this buildscript