Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:13:30 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system Message-ID: <20020604141330.B75699@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020604133617.A42142@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tjr@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:36:17PM %2B1000 References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> <20020604133617.A42142@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:36:17PM +1000, Tim J. Robbins wrote: > I am in favour of doing this. Same with cpio. I'd prefer to see GNU tar > and cpio in ports (if they are not already there). We have had GNU tar just too long to move it to ports. Nothing else has the same options or support. > Having two tar's, two cpio's, two awk's, gzip and zlib in the base system > is bloat. We don't have two tars. The awk I'll fix right now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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