Re: Things to remove from /rescue

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 07/17/03

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:14 -0400
To: kalts@estpak.ee, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org

    At 4:50 PM +0300 7/17/03, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
    >On Thu, Jul 17, 2003, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
    >
    >> - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
    >
    >As someone said, people are accustomed to tar, it's in
    >fingers. I like to use pax for copying directory hierarchies
    >(pax -rw), but for every other task use tar. Will learn pax
    >if needed, no problem.

    'tar' is programmed into my fingers too, but I must admit
    that I like the idea of limiting the amount of GNU-licensed
    bits in /rescue. I guess gzip needs to be there, is there
    anything else that's gnu-ish?

    [hopefully this is the last bit of paint that I will add to
    this potential bikeshed...] 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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