Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:14 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: kalts@estpak.ee, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <p05210674bb3c5ceaf247@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal> References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal>
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At 4:50 PM +0300 7/17/03, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
>
>As someone said, people are accustomed to tar, it's in
>fingers. I like to use pax for copying directory hierarchies
>(pax -rw), but for every other task use tar. Will learn pax
>if needed, no problem.
'tar' is programmed into my fingers too, but I must admit
that I like the idea of limiting the amount of GNU-licensed
bits in /rescue. I guess gzip needs to be there, is there
anything else that's gnu-ish?
[hopefully this is the last bit of paint that I will add to
this potential bikeshed...]
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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