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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 3:24 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> Also, what would be wrong with ar? It's a standard POSIX tool, and |
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> >> should be available everywhere. |
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> > The original post says what's wrong with ar. Please be more specific |
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> > if you disagree with it. |
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> AFAICS, the arguments are that ar would be obscure, and that the LSB |
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> considers it deprecated. I don't find either of them convincing. |
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> Since when do we care about the LSB? |
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I assert that it doesn't matter which tool we pick, so we have arbitrarily |
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chosen tar because we like it. |
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If you have a basis for preferring ar over tar; I'd love to hear it. I only |
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brought it up because I know debian uses it. |
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-A |
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> Ulrich |
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