Colin Walters wrote:
My impression was that several people have looked at modifying GNU tar
to support xattrs, and ended up running away screaming...
That doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do! Deprecating tar doesn't
sound like a winning idea to me. Surely someone will make their sanity
saving throw.
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