Re: EXTRACT_USING improvements: a concrete proposal

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

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 04:16:34PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Do you see any problem with the
> 
>   if a platform's tar is (generally) not good enough, set EXTRACT_USING
>   to bsdtar for that platform
> 
> approach?

I'd take the reverse approach: unless we know for sure that there will
be either gtar or bsdtar available, explicitly pick the latter as
default.

Joerg