>From: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> If you only use tar x or tar c, and don't know what else is supported you 
>> believe that GNU tar is sufficient.

>FWIW Debian now includes star as an optional package for both 3.0 and
>sid (unstable); however, the default is GNU tar because that's what
>people are used to.  But star is there if people want it...

But if it does not get installed by default people who don't know it
will not use it.

>If you want it more widely used perhaps you should consider making an
>LSB package of it (or finding someone with enough interest to do it
>for you).

This makes no sense. Star compiles and runs on > 30 different platforms.
Linux is just one of them, I cannot put effort into a single system...

 Jörg

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