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

[Joerg Schilling]

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?

The named programs are part of the base functionality from SUSv2 or the POSIX 
standard. As ONNV is the Solaris base, I expect the named programs to be part 
of that base.

Jörg

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