Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:33:04 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong. Mapping it to -z and relying on libarchives autodetection would be somewhat better. Actually implementing it would still be best. And useful, too. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCUr3EXhc68WspdLARAv3cAJ9i7rLi8yQAUsBrthYxC14S3N3jYwCgmM71 uwbWIrGRTA8QpUf/ed/1XQU= =D5Uq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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