On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 03:34:48PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 07:01:21PM +1100, bug1@optushome.com.au wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 02:03:20 +0100 > > Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Not till it begins to emulate GNU tar's default behaviour. > > GNU tar should not be seen as the the standard, POSIX should be. > If a standards document goes off into the wild blue yonder and defines > a "standard" that is incompatible with existing practice, then I don't > see why we would have any reason to follow it. > Also, Debian has always taken advantage of the rich set of features > offered by the GNU tools. I see no benefit to limiting ourselves to > the use of POSIX features. I certainly see no a priori reason to > adopt it as the standard to write to. POSIX itself is non-free, and > many of its standardization choices are motivated by compromises for > the sake of proprietary unix systems. I think such systems should be > supplanted, not catered to. So when is ACL-support for gtar going to be available? I'm a little miffed to learn that there are other free tar implementations out there that handle ACLs, while Debian and GNU tar are lagging behind. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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