Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> I thought that we first need to get it in.
>>>
>>>
>> Well sure,... you can either review the newer features or disable them
>> in such a delivery.
>>
>
> Could you please explain why star should have problems with things that have
> never been done with GNU tar?
>
>
>
Because GNU tar delivers into SFW, and does not claim to be called
"/usr/bin/tar".
If you are happy being delivered into /usr/sfw/bin/star then much of the
work can probably be elided.
-- Garrett