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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creation and handling of virtual/tar
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:45:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511071945.39657@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436F9B4C.3040402@gentoo.org>

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On Monday 07 November 2005 19:22, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Sure. What's the point? What benefit does one tar have over the other?
> How is bsdtar more capable in any situation than gnutar?
the first point is not to change the default behavior of an userland, so 
FreeBSD should have FreeBSD tar.

About the difference between the two, I still prefer bsdtar because is a 
little more cleaner (imho), it does not use gzip/bzip2 in pipe to 
extract .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives, and it extracts zip files and iso 
files.

And it's a choice people can do, default users won't see any difference 
anyway.

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-07  3:25 [gentoo-dev] Creation and handling of virtual/tar Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-07 18:22 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-11-07 18:45   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [this message]
2005-11-07 19:38     ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-11-07 19:47       ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò

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