> > > Making a custom version of tar that allowed anyone to do it > > would be a silly hack. Fakeroot is not a silly hack. Read the man > page. > > Alright, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to call fakeroot a silly hack. > Fakeroot > _is_ a hack, in the positive sense, but it's not silly - it's damn > cool. It > allows you to bypass unnecessary restrictions in applications that > falsely > believe they have to be root to function properly. However, using > this tool > regularly for a standard operation instead of fixing the offending > application - that is what I find .. odd. A tar patch would be more > stable > _and_ portable.
I agree. To be honest, I have been thinking about this, yes a patch to tar is what I would support as well. Call it "disttar" make it force the permissions to be what they should while unpacking and packing. This would really make sense. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
