Re: increasingly packages need gtar or pax-with-libarchive

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 02:43:07PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2020-03-10 at 13:51 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> > 3) Add some variable e.g. SHINY_PAX_FORMAT that if set, forces gtar if
> > default tar isn't good enough.
> 
> I'd like some variant of this.  It's a bit annoying when people add
> dependencies on bsdtar unconditionally for those of us who have native
> gtar or otherwise that can handle the archive fine.

The primary reason why bsdtar is preferable to gtar is that it can be
provided by the tree without requiring other extraction tools.

Joerg