Hi, I'm the maintainer of unrar-free package and the upstream member of the unrar-free project.
The non-free unrar compatible synopsis is not passing anything to the
non-free unrar. Those front-end programs usually use system() or exec()
to execute /usr/bin/unrar to extract RAR files (normally the non-free
one and a lot of distributions only distribute the non-free one, it's
not their fault to use the name "/usr/bin/unrar".) Thus, to replace
non-free unrar, the unrar-free must provide the compatible synopsis for
other programs' execution call. And use alternatives (or directly use
Conflict:) to provide /usr/bin/unrar.
We are making it a non-free replacement as good as possible. But it
still needs a lot of hacks. Currently, the latest unrar-free
(cvs20070515) has the ability to decompress many (many, just try the rar
files in your hard disk) rar files, but not perfectly. For example, RAR
3.0 AES encrypted files are not supported now. Multi-volume RAR and
4G-larger RAR (even the old format) cannot be decompressed, either. We
are still hacking those formats.
Please also take a look at #423170. If the front-end programs can search
for /usr/bin/unrar-free, it'll work fine. But to ask all front-end
programs to add that patch is annoying. And not all distributions
provides /usr/bin/unrar-free. On Gentoo it is unrar-gpl.
Many Thanks,
Ying-Chun Liu
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