Adding pkg_admin unpack (ish)

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Anthony Mallet <anthony.mallet%laas.fr@localhost> writes:

> As a side-question, I was also wondering if we are not missing
> something in pkg_admin or pkg_add that would just decompress the raw
> archive of a binary package, including meta-data files. Something in
> the spirit of `dpkg -x pkg.deb /destdir`. That's actually the
> reason why I'm currently fighting with pax :)
>
> Do you think it would be a useful addition? Maybe I could work on this
> if that's deemed interesting by the community.

I have only occasionally wanted to do this, and I've just used tar to
unpack.  I wonder why that isn't ok, for your occasional use.