Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Why not include xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Both are well esteblished and at > least bzip2 is anyway installed on nearly every desktop. The funny thing is, we already have a bzip2 (de)compressor in base. IO::Compress::Bzip2(3p) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Paul D. Ouderkirk
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Francois Pussault wrote: > If you eliminate standalone commands bzip & gzip & add their code to tar only > then you never more can use bzip command or gzip command > No one is suggesting to do that. -- -- Paul D. Ouderkirk Senior UNIX

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Francois Pussault
rkoff > Sent: Sat Oct 08 13:48:19 CEST 2011 > To: Francois Pussault > Subject: Re: tar -J for xz > > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote: > > Then if bzip & gzip are inside tar, you may not distribute them as standalone, so you cannot b

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote: > Then if bzip & gzip are inside tar, you may not distribute them as > standalone, so you cannot bzip or gzip any other > file format than tar... > > then you integrate them ... but still need ton have standalone versions to > u

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread David Coppa
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Francois Pussault wrote: > Then if bzip & gzip are inside tar, you may not distribute them as standalone, > so you cannot bzip or gzip any other > file format than tar... > > then you integrate them ... but still need ton have standalone versions to use > them...thi

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Francois Pussault
off > Sent: Sat Oct 08 13:24:52 CEST 2011 > To: > Subject: Re: tar -J for xz > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:01:23PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > this diff adds a -J flag to tar that calls xz for compress/decompress. > > > Requires you to install the

Re: tar -J for xz

2011-10-08 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:01:23PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > this diff adds a -J flag to tar that calls xz for compress/decompress. > > Requires you to install the xz package on your system. > > No way. > > Base never depends on external things. Why not include xz-utils and bzip2 in base?