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On Monday 30 January 2012 14:54:04 Stan Shebs wrote: > So while we can certainly debate whether this feature or that helps or > hinders future progress, I don't think it's in our interests to > disparage all the legacy support. i didn't say "legacy isn't supported at all". xz will work on legacy systems just fine provided you d/l and build the decompressor (which is freely available). what i did say is that we can't restrict ourselves based on what random old versions of tar people have on their random systems which happens to not detect xz transparently. your `tar` doesn't support -J, or -I, or -a doesn't detect xz ? then run `unxz` yourself first. there is no actual problem here. the only thing i've seen from Eli is that he doesn't want to have to run `unxz ... && tar xf ...`. -mike
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