Subject: bug#47590: 28.0.50; dired-x.el: recommend 'bsdtar -xf' instead of proprietary 'unrar' program

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:02:29 +0300

> From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:54:09 +0300
> 
> 
> In dired-x.el the proprietary program 'unrar' is recommended. Instead
> 'bsdtar -xf' shall be recommended:
> 
> Line 916:   '("\\.rar\\'" "unrar x")

I use bsdtar as well, but unrar is much more widespread.  And it isn't
true that it's proprietary: there's a free software version of unrar,
you can find it on Ubuntu systems, for example.  AFAIK, we don't use
any features that the free version doesn't have.