On 2012-12-27, Live user <nots...@live.com> wrote: > On 27/12/2012 14:06, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> This isn't like a Linux distribution where the whole system is >> installed from a collection of different pieces of packaged software. >> The base operating system is a consistent whole; pkg_info lists >> only packages of third-party software which are not part of the >> base OS (software from packages is located primarily under /usr/local, >> with some files ending up in other places like /var - software from >> the base OS installs into /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin etc). > > I understand, that in this case, tar is really bsdtar (not gnutar, or > star) and that is part of the core while linux distros don't have a > "core" tar and use the external gnu version. > > I see as well that binary packages use versioning, because are external, > like nano or lftp.
Calling it "bsdtar" is confusing; FreeBSD's tar, which is in the libarchive package, has that name (and is different to OpenBSD's tar).. but otherwise right.
