Re: bsdcpio and bsdtar installed by default

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> All archives created by bsdtar, modern gtar and star are POSIX
> interchange format when any of the limitations of ustar are hit.
> pax can't deal with a number of those archives

I'd strongly prefer to see pax fixed, rather than having another version of
tar added to the base system.

--apb (Alan Barrett)