Integrate unrar [PSARC/2008/756 FastTrack timeout 12/15/2008]

[James Carlson]

Peter Dennis writes:
> 	Unrar is a commandline utility to list, test and extract files from
>         popular RAR archives.  Adding unrar to OpenSolaris will also extend

"popular?"

>         The current version of unrar is 3.8.2 at the time of this case.

I think it's actually 3.8.5, as of two months ago.

> 	Note, that p7zip is also able to extract RAR files.  However, since
>         the RAR format is rather popular and unrar utility can be found in all
>         major Linux distribution it still makes sense to have it ported to
>         OpenSolaris (it is not a common knowledge to use p7zip for extracting
>         RAR files).

*sigh*

+1 anyway.

> 	unrar   		Volatile   		Commandline syntax

For what it's worth, I don't think the command line on unrar has
changed in a long time, and designating it as "Volatile," besides
being unnecessarily fear-inducing, makes it problematic for GNOME to
use, which seems to be the primary purpose of this project.  It could
easily be Uncommitted if not just Committed.

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