On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:43:53PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot 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. > > Well pval added support for bzip2 years ago in a similar way...
And i don't see the point in all those special flags for special (de)compression tools, not even for gzip. gzip -cd bla.tgz | tar tf - Same for other tools. Why add flags to tar for this?
