[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Joerg Schilling]

John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I've mentioned numerous times before, it's not the particular  
> implementation users are after, it's functionality.
>
> users don't want gnu tar per se, they want tar -z... or tar -j. We can  
> have a standards compliant tar with the -z or -j options, and I'm sure  
> ARC won't complain too much. wholesale replacing tar with gnu tar, on  
> the other hand, they will ( and should ) have a fit over.

If you use star as TAR, you get this all together with standard compliance.

Jörg

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