Joerg, > At least after GNU tar is moved to /usr/bin/ it seems to be important that > either a newer version is used _and_ the comnpilation is done in a way that > tells GNU tar to default to the POSIX.1-1988 tar archive format or that the > man > mage gets a big warning that GNU tar by default creates non-standard archives > that cannot be read by vanilla tar programs.
I could understand placing such a warning if GNU tar was replacing the existing implementation under /usr/bin but this case doesn't propose such a thing. dsc
