On 10/4/11, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> 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.
But since our tar already has bzip2 support using 'j' and bzip2 is a port, I'd see no problems in adding 'J' for xz too... ciao, David
