[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose

[Rick Moen]

Quoting cerise at armory.com (cerise at armory.com):

[protracted namecalling snipped]

> One great way to lose it is by distributing a binary (even if they've
> stopped at present) which removes historical options from a package
> which the maintainers have taken pains to leave in.

I've run a number of Debian systems continuously since 2.1 "slink" in
1999, always invoked GNU tar sans hyphen as option delimiter, kept the
systems updated from official packages, and never observed the behaviour
you describe on any version, at any time.

The natural inference, of course, is that your Seattle friend's box was
somehow locally broken.  Pity about that:  I hope he/she got around to
fixing it.

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