Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes: > On 2025-11-08 06:24, Sam James wrote: > >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/. > > Thanks. And ouch. > > I doubt whether we should have GNU Tar automatically deal with > "double-compressed" files. If we did, the Go folks might start > "triple-compressing". Who knows how far they'd go?
I agree. And handling archives that are compressed an arbitrary number of times would be a pointless chore. Collin
