>From: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> If you only use tar x or tar c, and don't know what else is supported you
>> believe that GNU tar is sufficient.
>FWIW Debian now includes star as an optional package for both 3.0 and
>sid (unstable); however, the default is GNU tar because that's what
>people are used to. But star is there if people want it...
But if it does not get installed by default people who don't know it
will not use it.
>If you want it more widely used perhaps you should consider making an
>LSB package of it (or finding someone with enough interest to do it
>for you).
This makes no sense. Star compiles and runs on > 30 different platforms.
Linux is just one of them, I cannot put effort into a single system...
J�rg
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