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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency
From: |
James K. Lowden |
Subject: |
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:08:54 -0500 |
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:48:07 -0700
Warren Young <address@hidden> wrote:
> I still use systems[*] that don't have tar -J, and am likely to
> continue doing so for many years to come. Installing xz isn't a big
> deal, but typing the longer commands needed for separate
> decompression and untarring is.
Exactly. And learning yet another unizipping command line is not now
and never will be worth my time. It might become necessary, but that's
another story.
There are other tars and other paxes. I use NetBSD pax. It doesn't
support xz and likely won't until and unless it becomes the dominant
format. Is it GNU's prerogative to force changes like this, and to
make other free software less convenient to use?
If you live, and autoconf developers do, at the cutting edge of new
releases, you of course know about xz. I had to resort to google and
wikipedia to even know what it was, because the site whose tarball I
needed didn't even bother to note what it was. (Note that it's still
pretty common for websites to explain what a .pdf is, and where to
download the Acrobat Reader.)
--jkl
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, (continued)
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Eric Blake, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, John Hawkinson, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/02
- Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency,
James K. Lowden <=
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Alberto Luaces, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Olaf Lenz, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/06