Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 17:29, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 06:46, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>I recommend submitting a change to the "ark" maintainers suggesting
> >>they use "-z" (which is implemented by many different tar programs)
> >>rather than the gtar-specific --use-compress-program=gunzip.
> >
> > Now, what ark does is not calling --use-compress-programm=gunzip, it
> > calls --use-compress-program=<uncompress|gunzip|bunzip2|lzop> depending
> > on what compressor is detected or user-specification ....
>
> Seems like it should be fairly minor to change it to use
>
>     <-z|-z|-j|--use-compress-program=lzop>

Not really. Depends on your definition of "fairly minor" of course, but not 
minor enough for me to prefer doing it over just depending on gtar. Also, 
this would obviously leave it broken for the tar.lzo case.

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