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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