I dont accept binary blobs on my computer. Everything installed must be full open source (even if I install a package that was compiled by the distro maintainers)
I want to install a good unrar that satisfies this rule, opens rar's well, and i'd prefer it to work with Ark (but dont mind too much)
Wikiedia says :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar
unrarlib - free but opens up to rar v2.x
the unarchiver (xad) - free
unrar - blob
My distro now supplies only the blob, but in the past usd to supply unrar-free too
the site of unrar-free says :
http://gna.org/projects/unrar/
it's unrarlib
the site of unrarlib says :
http://www.unrarlib.org/
it supports up to 2.x
here is the source of unrar (link)
the source of unrar is here
ftp://ftp.rarlabs.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.7.8.tar.gz
1 The "blob"'s source looks like source, there are no files that look like binaries inside. So is it open sourced ?
2 Excluding this one, you have other suggestions ?