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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creation and handling of virtual/tar
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:25:20
Message-Id: 436F9B4C.3040402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Creation and handling of virtual/tar by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
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4 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
5 | What I want to hear is if anyone has good reasons to not allowing
6 | choosing the tar command between the two compatible alternatives (both
7 | works fine with portage). If nobody has reasons, I'll be back in a
8 | couple of days with eclass, modified ebuilds, and if I can find time to
9 | learn about it an eselect module to select a generic "tool" (tar only
10 | in this moment).
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12 Sure. What's the point? What benefit does one tar have over the other?
13 How is bsdtar more capable in any situation than gnutar?
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15 Thanks,
16 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Creation and handling of virtual/tar "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>