Comment 2 for bug 257519

We should not be so quick to get rid of bugs without having consideration to a quality user experience. The gnome feature list states that "File-roller (Archive Manager) now uses p7zip to extract archives, so it supports .alz, .zip, .cbr, .cbz archives, .arj, .rar and .iso files". People naturally expect that stated features will actually be included and that they will work without hassles.

If the root cause of the bug is that the package p7zip-rar is not present, then the solution should be that this package is changed to require p7zip-rar. What happens now is that rar's under file manager fail mysteriously without any assistance about needing the p7zip-rar package.

Im re-opening this to confirmed because its not an invalid bug report.