[Bug 444366] Review Request: deco - Extractor for various archive file formats

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Summary: Review Request: deco - Extractor for various archive file formats


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444366





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2008-05-01 22:59 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> I think it's a bad idea to have Requires: on extractors of all supported file
> types.  The current list of "flac, arj, arc, cabextract, lzma" already looks
> hopelessly incomplete and at the same time personally I'd already be annoyed if
> installing deco would pull in things like arj or arc.  So FWIW, +1 to not
> depending on *any* archivers.

Agreed.

> On the other hand, if the supported archive types can be enabled on the fly by
> placing symlinks somewhere (that's what I understood from the discussion,
> haven't looked at the package), perhaps consider using %triggers (still without
> dependencies!), see eg. the bash-completion package.

This looks complicated to me. It seems to me that patching deco to have
a way to tell that the program is not there and have a nice error message
in that case would be better.

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