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From: | Pavel Raiskup |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
Date: | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:56:51 +0200 |
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> But with the proposed approach, -I /usr/bin/gzip behaves differently > from -I gzip. Isn't that confusing? It definitely is. > > I'm partly against > > this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write > > very simple wrapper > > Good point. So perhaps we shouldn't add that complexity. Still, > it'd be better if we didn't have the sort of confusion illustrated > above, somehow. So you think something like remove the leading path '/usr/bin/' before comparison with 'GZIP_PROGRAM'?
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