Do we really need rar and unrar, zip and unzip?
Please note that unrar, unzip and gunzip are command line utilities.
asked Oct 21, 2014 at 14:18
6 Answers
IMHO: Nope, we do not need either of these four.
Especially not both the compress and the decompress version of the tags. Even if people vote for keeping them I suggest removing at least unrar/unzip
I think that there are cases when having the specific tags would help. I think the extra decompression tags are overkill. Just have zip, rar, and gzip and then make compression and extraction for general questions.
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5I believe that extraction may be too wide a term as it may imply extracting data from something. Commented Oct 24, 2014 at 12:21
I'd give a differing view here. There's specific unrar and unzip binaries in common use, so this is not your classic meta-tag. This would be like demanding we kill off the 7zip tag, IMO.
answered Oct 26, 2014 at 3:14
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Not sure about unrar, but unzip is almost always linked to zip.– Chris SCommented Nov 3, 2014 at 19:18
Just my opinion maybe, but I think the compression is quite sufficient. It automatically implies (de)compression. At most there should be only two tags compression and decompression for the if for the sake of clarity.
I believe compression should be sufficient for all (de)compression related questions.
I would also synomymise zip and rar to compression so that people find it when attempting to tag with the aforementioned tags.
I think that these tags should stand for the time being, but a note should be made that when the Internet is full up they will be the first things removed.
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