rarcrack: remove in favor of john the ripper

[milahu]

john with 10K stars is 50x more popular than rarcrack with 200 stars

using john to crack rar passwords

rar2john asdf.rar > asdf.rar.hashes
john asdf.rar.hashes

ping @davidak

[davidak]

i guess this should be an issue in the official repo?

while this seems reasonable and i as package maintainer can decide that, there is no general rule to remove obscure packages when a more common tool does the same task. and i think consistency is very important for a good user experience

it would be in line with my suggested vision/goal for nixpkgs:

extensive collection of relevant free software packages

thanks for bringing this up!

[milahu]

this should be an issue in the official repo

im banned from nixos...

there is no general rule to remove obscure packages
when a more common tool does the same task

there is an unwritten rule: thou shall not bloat

john does a better job than rarcrack, its faster and more generic
so keeping rarcrack is a waste of build time

when people absolutely need rarcrack, there is NUR

a legit duplicate would be _7zz and p7zip
because they vary in implementation details

or rhash vs hashdeep vs hashrat ...
they are too different to consider them duplicates