utilities/ark/README.packagers

0001 OPTIONAL RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES
0002
0003 Ark has a plugin-based architecture in order to support many archive formats.
0004 The only required plugin is the libarchive plugin (which is why libarchive is a required build-time dependency of Ark).
0005
0006 The other plugins are optional. They are built by default, but each of them requires one or more runtime dependencies, i.e. they won't work if they don't find the CLI executable(s) they rely on.
0007
0008 The following is a list of these optional executables. Some of them are marked as RECOMMENDED, as Ark won't be able to (properly) handle popular formats without them.
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0010 * unzip, zipinfo: to open and extract zip archives
0011 * zip: to create and edit zip archives
0012 * 7z: to open/extract/create/edit 7z and zip archives [RECOMMENDED, free]
0013 * unrar: to open and extract rar archives [RECOMMENDED, non-free]
0014 * rar: to create and edit rar archives
0015 * lsar, unar: to open and extract rar archives [RECOMMENDED, free]
0016 * lrzip: to open and extract lrzip archives
0017 * lzop: to open and extract tar.lzo archives if libarchive >= 3.3 has been compiled without liblzo2 support.
0018
0019 OPTIONAL BUILD-TIME DEPENDENCIES
0020
0021 * libzip (>= 1.2.0): for .zip files [RECOMMENDED]
0022 * zlib: for .gz files
0023 * bzip2: for .bz2 files
0024 * liblzma/xz: for .xz files
0025