Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 17:33, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> David Schultz wrote:
> > ... a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as
> > an undocumented option and ignore it.
>
> Tempting, tempting.... ;-/

Not one bit, IMHO. I can't imagine a single case where something would use 
--use-compress-program and it would continue to work if the tar in question 
simply ignored it. In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive 
completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong.

Mapping it to -z and relying on libarchives autodetection would be somewhat 
better. Actually implementing it would still be best. And useful, too.

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