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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:45:23 -0400
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
Message-ID:  <20050405164523.GA51452@VARK.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
References:  <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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.

Why not?  If libarchive supports the compression format, it will
automatically detect it and perform the appropriate decompression.

> In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive 
> completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong.

Why?  If libarchive doesn't support the compression format, then
it will fail and ark should detect this.



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