Gabriel Linder writes: >I see more and more tar.xz archives, and thought it would be nice to >have tar able to extract them directly as with gzip/bzip2. > >-J is what GNU and FreeBSD use, so I used it too. Based on what was done >to add bzip2 support.
This has been discussed on the list before. I think the conclusion was that xz won't make it into base, and adding new tar flags for stuff not in base is a bad idea (although we already have -j for bzip2). -- Anthony J. Bentley
