On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
The idea of the proposal was to get a working implementation in, so that e.g. pkg_install can use that. If you run into issues with /bin/tar for other use cases like backing up large files, you can use it. The idea was to not introduce a possible large and intrusive change.
As far as I know, the existing tar used to work for~ever for pkg_install.Why is this so urgent all of a sudden now? (No, I don't count "extract a Mono tarball" as urgent...)
- Hubert