On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:01:23PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > this diff adds a -J flag to tar that calls xz for compress/decompress. > > Requires you to install the xz package on your system. > > No way. > > Base never depends on external things.
Why not include xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Both are well esteblished and at least bzip2 is anyway installed on nearly every desktop. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff