Bug 57174

Summary: Consider adding S tar
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Neal D. Becker <nbecker>
Component: distributionAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Neal D. Becker 2001-12-06 13:33:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Consider adding S tar as a package.  Looks interesting.
http://freshmeat.net/redir/star/9985/url_homepage/

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-23 11:39:05 UTC 
Assigning to distribution because it's not my call.

My take on this is "rather no":
- We cannot replace GNU tar with S tar because they are not command line
  compatible and many scripts depend on tar commands S tar does not implement,
  or simply on the way most tar implementations (including GNU tar but not S tar)
  want some things done (e.g. tar xf vs. tar -x -f)
- We don't need two implementations of tar.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 2002-01-29 16:39:23 UTC 
Bero's summary is correct.  The incremental value to the OS is minimal, and
the inherent support costs are not.