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)
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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.
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Paul D. Ouderkirk
Senior UNIX
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
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
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
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> 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
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?
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