>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote:

> On 12/07/2014 11:23 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> FYI:
>> 
>> % portageq envvar CHOST
>> x86_64-apple-darwin13
>> % ar --version
>> ar: illegal option -- -
>> usage:  ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ...
>> [...]

> It's hard to whitelist it if doesn't support --version, so it seems
> reasonable to require deb2targz whenever ar is not GNU ar.

unpack will still use ar if deb2targz is not installed. So on Darwin,
behaviour should be the same as before.

Ulrich