if gnu tar proprietary?
Nov 25, 2020, 16:49 by d...@frign.de: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500 > Cág <c...@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 >
