On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 12:02:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > We have various applications that only want to extract single members of > > the package (changelog, NEWS, copyright, ...); tar is a really bad > > format for such an operation. Other formats (zip, 7z, ...) are more > > suited for them. > > Perhaps such files could be considered metadata Yes please. I think there are various proposal about this, though they IIRC are mostly about not putting them into /usr/share but into a more suitable location. -- WBR, wRAR
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