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From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system
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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.

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