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Port details
rare Frontend for legendary
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Maintainer: Alexander88207@protonmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-05 16:48:13
Last Update: 2026-05-15 16:37:41
Commit Hash: dfb7f65
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare
Description:
Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, written in PySide6.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. share/applications/rare.desktop
  2. share/pixmaps/rare.png
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/rare-1.12.0/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/rare-1.12.0/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/rare-1.12.0/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • rare>0:games/rare
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/games/rare/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install games/rare
  • pkg install rare
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: rare
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1778707064 SHA256 (RareDevs-Rare-1.12.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 75f97dc4ec936869736e42f01c7464b2965272a7adcc932d1b66d6c0a71b5464 SIZE (RareDevs-Rare-1.12.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5301005

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
rare
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.11.31.11.3--1.11.3n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.11.31.11.3--1.11.3---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest1.11.31.12.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.11.31.11.3n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. py311-setuptools-scm>=6.2 : devel/py-setuptools-scm@py311
  2. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  3. py311-setuptools>=63.1.0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
  4. python3.11 : lang/python311
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. legendary>0 : games/legendary
  2. py311-orjson>0 : devel/py-orjson@py311
  3. py311-pyside6>0 : devel/pyside6@py311
  4. py311-QtAwesome>0 : x11-fonts/py-QtAwesome@py311
  5. py311-vdf>0 : devel/vdf@py311
  6. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  7. python3.11 : lang/python311
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
games_rare
USES:
desktop-file-utils python
pkg-message:
To play Windows games you need to install Wine. Enjoy!
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/RareDevs/Rare/tar.gz/1.12.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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1.12.0
15 May 2026 16:37:41
commit hash: dfb7f6514d9b742660c2949c60842a0ba7b97ad6commit hash: dfb7f6514d9b742660c2949c60842a0ba7b97ad6commit hash: dfb7f6514d9b742660c2949c60842a0ba7b97ad6commit hash: dfb7f6514d9b742660c2949c60842a0ba7b97ad6 files touched by this commit
Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Alexander Vereeken
games/rare: Update to 1.12.0

Changelog:	https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare/releases/tag/1.12.0

PR:		295271
Approved by:	arrowd (co-mentor)
1.11.3
05 Apr 2026 16:46:15
commit hash: daa622a7f6c26180e2e617c02d791c68f887f786commit hash: daa622a7f6c26180e2e617c02d791c68f887f786commit hash: daa622a7f6c26180e2e617c02d791c68f887f786commit hash: daa622a7f6c26180e2e617c02d791c68f887f786 files touched by this commit
Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Alexander Vereeken
games/rare: New port

Rare is a graphical frontend for Legendary written in PySide6.

PR:             286457
Co-authored-by: Kenneth Raplee <kenrap@FreeBSD.org>
Approved by:    makc (mentor)

Number of commits found: 2