> But with the proposed approach, -I /usr/bin/gzip behaves differently > from -I gzip. Isn't that confusing?
It definitely is. > > I'm partly against > > this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write > > very simple wrapper > > Good point. So perhaps we shouldn't add that complexity. Still, > it'd be better if we didn't have the sort of confusion illustrated > above, somehow. So you think something like remove the leading path '/usr/bin/' before comparison with 'GZIP_PROGRAM'?
