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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:54:36 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Vasil Dimov <vd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r189828 - in head: include sys/sys
Message-ID:  <49C4109C.1020804@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <49C3D518.6070105@freebsd.org>
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> ... we'd have to mod apps to do things like remove use of 
> gnu-long-opts in to switch away from things like gtar and the savings is 
> unclear.  But I can ask...

FYI:  bsdtar already supports the most popular GNU tar
long options.  There should be extremely few ports
that actually require GNU tar.

Tim


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