On 6/2/20 11:09 AM, Reelix wrote: > the -z / -j parameters exists for the purpose > of decreasing the resultant file size of the created archive. The > problem is that in doing so, the compression/decompression time > increases.
These days those options are used more often than not, at least in my neck of the woods, because they're a real win for making tarballs intended for distribution across the network. Let's keep them.