I agree. Or if we must have compression flags just have one flag and let tar figure out the right tool to use. Having -Z -z -J -j etc etc is silly.
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:41:39PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > 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?
