Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more
> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip.
Uhm, what's bad about
tar cf - | p7zip ....
> If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not
> have been the need to keep it
To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY
have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons
on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but
switched to cdrkit?
> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar
> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any.
What do you mean?
> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star
> to /bin/tar.
>
> Let's see if it works.
Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run
into problems.
Alexander Skwar
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