Re: [dev] [sbase][tar] GNU tar support

From: Adam Kandur <rndd_AT_tuta.io>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:06:51 +0100 (CET)

if gnu tar proprietary?



Nov 25, 2020, 16:49 by dev_AT_frign.de:

> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500
> Cág <ca6c_AT_snopyta.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Cág,
>
>> A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints
>> tar: unsupported tar-filetype L
>>
>> Is GNU tar support out of scope?
>>
>
> there's probably no way to implement those GNU-extensions in a good and
> suckless way. The FSF has the bad habit for their
> standard-implementations that they tend to add everything including the
> kitchen sink which might as well be easily handled by other standard
> tools (think of "cat -v" for example).
>
> Even if a suckless implementation of GNU tar was possible, would you
> really want it to be included? I'd rather like to encourage people to
> use standard non-proprietary file formats.
>
> With best regards
>
> Laslo
>
Received on Wed Nov 25 2020 - 18:06:51 CET