Re: [found the culprit]

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:46 PM Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

> > The big gain from uncompressing and unpacking in one go is that you
> > can skip storing the .tar, and you get to keep the original .tar.gz.
> > This is both time- and space-efficient.
>
> But that should be a separate command, since Z is only about
> uncompressing.  If you want to recompress the file, unpacking the
> archive is silly.

In the specific use case of recompressing (possibly to a different
compression algorithm), I agree.