If you eliminate standalone commands bzip & gzip & add their code to tar only then you never more can use bzip command or gzip command
so you cannon compress a file without include it in a tar.gz or tar.bz2 gzip toto.iso mean create a compressed toto.iso.gz if you include gzip in tar & eliminate standalone command : you absolute need to do that : tar czf toto.iso.tar.gz that means you cannot have a compressed toto.iso.gz you can only get a compressed tar of the iso not a compressed only form of the iso. > ---------------------------------------- > From: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sat Oct 08 13:48:19 CEST 2011 > To: Francois Pussault <fpussa...@contactoffice.fr> > Subject: Re: tar -J for xz > > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote: > > Then if bzip & gzip are inside tar, you may not distribute them as standalone, so you cannot bzip or gzip any other > > file format than tar... > > > > then you integrate them ... but still need ton have standalone versions to use them...this mean you need them both tow times on the system, one version included in tar & the standalone one... this is just stupid & useless. > > > > standalone versions called by tar with -j & -z ; is then better by far ! > > > > Even a broken & stupid brain like mine can understand it :) :) > > > > > Why not include xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Both are well esteblished and at > > > least bzip2 is anyway installed on nearly every desktop. > > Nice. And how does it deal with including xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Do You > really believe that those can't be integrated without staticly linking? Or > what did You mean saying "if bzip & gzip are inside tar"? > > -- > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff > Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 ToulouseB FranceB +33 6 17 230 820 B +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
