Re: portability as a goal for debian?
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:44:36PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> No, but I support those who do. A tar should be essential. I see no
> reason why it should be gtar.
Any reason why it shouldn't?
We seem to spend a lot of time trying to find the lowest common
denominator lately, rather than actually using the advanced features
we have. Why bother developing an advanced OS when we discourage
use of the advanced features for compatibility reasons?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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