On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 17:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > David Schultz wrote: > > > ... a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as > > > an undocumented option and ignore it. > > > > Tempting, tempting.... ;-/ > > Not one bit, IMHO. I can't imagine a single case where something would use > --use-compress-program and it would continue to work if the tar in question > simply ignored it. Why not? If libarchive supports the compression format, it will automatically detect it and perform the appropriate decompression. > In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive > completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong. Why? If libarchive doesn't support the compression format, then it will fail and ark should detect this.Received on Tue Apr 05 2005 - 14:45:39 UTC
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