On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I see not reason why FreeBSD people did start another tar implementation > recently.
Initially performance, now licensing. GNU tar was used by FreeBSD up until recently. libarchive was written to speed up the FreeBSD pkg* tools, and then it was realized that it could be extended to a BSD-licensed tar implemented using libarchive.... later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
