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On Friday 27 January 2012 04:10:32 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> > > On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:30:39 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Previous proposal by me: > > > > xz for the new release tip > > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html > > > > > > Please think a little about those who don't necessarily have a tar > > > that knows about xz. The world doesn't end with GNU/Linux. > > > > why does tar have to know about xz ? stdin hasn't suddenly stopped > > working. > > > > xzcat foo.tar.xz | tar xf - > > Because (a) this is less convenient to type you gotta be pulling my leg with this > and (b) you assume that ports of tar to non-Posix platforms know how to read > binary streams from stdin, but that assumption is false in quite a few > existing and widely used ports of tar. still a non-issue: unxz foo.tar.xz tar xf foo.tar forcing people to live in the past because you can't be bothered to type a few extra characters on your legacy systems is ridiculous -mike
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