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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system
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<<On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:36:17 +1000, "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Having two tar's, two cpio's, two awk's, gzip and zlib in the base system
> is bloat.

It may be bloat, but it's tolerable bloat that our users are
well-accustomed to.

-GAWollman


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