Default tar revisited

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:19:34PM -0700, Peter Avalos wrote:
> Since I upgraded to the newest version of bsdtar, I figure that it's a
> good time to revisit the default tar discussion from May 2005.  What do
> people think about switching to bsdtar so we don't need to maintain
> multiple tars?

Two things about that:
(a) Tape support is provided by pax as well, so not strictly necessary.
(b) bsdtar still lacks at least one actively used option of gtar, but
I'm working on that.

The latter was the show-stopper for me so far.

Joerg