[pacman-dev] tar/bsdtar switch

[Xavier]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:58:39PM -0700, eliott wrote:
> > To make it easier - what did you have to change? What are the common
> > things we've been using that are gnu extensions?
> 
> Just curious.
> What was the reason for the change in tar libraries?
> 

Do you mean the libtar -> libarchive change ?
The reasons are in one of the oldest mail in the archives :)
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2005-October/005428.html

And since pacman3 uses libarchive, some ppl thought it would make sense
to use it (via bsdtar) in the other tools as well.