On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
GNU tar no longer needs those flags... their "tar xf foo" works just fine whether foo is .tar, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2. > > > 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?
