[illumos-Developer] ejecting the archivers from illumos-gate

[Gordon Ross]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schuster
<michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:32, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
>
>> I would hereby like to propose that we remove tar, pax, cpio, and even
>> rmt (which exists to support tar), from the illumos-gate consolidation.
>
> let me ask the obvious question: is any of these used/required for a
> successful build?
>
> Michael

I think the miniroot build and runtime uses cpio.
Don't have time to look right now.