On Friday 02 December 2005 02:15 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: > If compression is the only feature you "need", better use star.
So I should load yet another tar on my system...<sigh> No, I should have one tar that works for everything I need, old and new alike.;-) Wether it's tar, gtar, star, doesn't matter. I want it to be tar. > And BTW: star has aprox. twice as much features as GNU tar. Features are only important if I need them.;-) > As I already noted in > another mail, I am currently not sure about your goals for this discussion. No goals at all. I was just pointing out that the OpenSolaris community is at a terrible dissadvantage if they maintain more than one version. The fragmentation will kill us. > If you like to start a discussion on "selecting the best application from > a list of similar ones for placing it into /usr/bin", we also need to talk > about general compatibility. This is where e.g. /usr/sfw/bin/gtar is > creating problems. Agreed, but /usr/sfw/ is the root of it all, just as /opt/csw/, or /opt/sfw/, or /usr/pkg, or /usr/sun...this will hurt in the end. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
