Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about filetypes...)

2003-03-31 Thread Tim Kientzle
Jordan K Hubbard wrote: Given ample personal experience with this issue, all I can say is that actions speak a lot louder than words where it's concerned. :-) On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: I've given up trying to argue for a well-designed package file format. tar

Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about filetypes...)

2003-03-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
Wes Peters wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 22:47, Tim Kientzle wrote: With this [tar library], it should be possible to make pkg_add considerably more efficient. I'd much rather see the metadata moved outside the file archives, but that's a separate argument and in now way detracts from your

Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about filetypes...)

2003-03-30 Thread Jordan K Hubbard
Given ample personal experience with this issue, all I can say is that actions speak a lot louder than words where it's concerned. :-) I don't mean this in the usual and offensive put up or shut up sense either, believe it or not. It's just that I've seen literally years worth of discussion