Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 18:45, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not?  If libarchive supports the compression format, it will
> automatically detect it and perform the appropriate decompression.

Ok, I didn't know tar -xf will actually extract anything that libarchive 
manages to make some sense of.

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