Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency

[Werner LEMBERG]

> However, I do wonder why GNU tar can't be smart enough to figure out
> what you meant when untarring with -z?  I get why we need -j and -J
> for creating archives, but when unpacking them, what's wrong with
> using magic numbers to detect the compression format?

On Mac OS X Lion, this actually happens: Regardless of the compression
algorithm, you always use `-z' while extracting.


    Werner