> MPlayer is not part of the base OS, so it is not something to be discussed
Obviously I was not "talking" seriously. > in relation to a software consolidation for a base OS. Tar, pax and similar > however are part of the base OS. See: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ > > for a list of utilities that are part of the base OS. Althouth pax is there, still I cannot find tar in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html > The reason why you believe to have problems with Sun tar is that you get > archives that have been created by GNU tar amd that are not standard >compliant. No I do not believe, I do have problems and that's why I have to use gtar. The reason is obvious and clearly I cannot force everyone to create archives that comply to the standard. > Since Sun tar is tested against the star test suite since autumn 2004, it is > really POSIX compliant since then. If you really like to replace tar by >GNUtar, > > then you would repplace something that is standard compliant with something > that is not and in turn create even more problems with data exchange between > different Solaris distros. Sun did a lot of great things but also many stupid things, so let's keep it out of the discussion. I do not want to replace anything, I just want to be able to use GNUtar and many other GNU utilities. On my machines I do use GNU things only as the "standard" utilities cause many problems when trying to compile standard tools. > BTW: star is able to unpack more archives created by GNU tar than GNU tar ;-) > Star on the other side create POSIX compliant archives. OK. I have star on my system. The question is why not include all three different tar's? > However, in case you believe that I like to replace sun tar by star > immediately, the first step of integrating star is intended to allow > everyone Personally I do not believe anything! I just want to see things move forward. And this is the reason I started this thread. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece
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