Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (368 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/01/2012 10:34 AM, Joerg Schilling pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Linda Walsh<suse@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > Nelson Marques wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > As for xz, it doesn't seem to handle the variety of files that 7z did, which
> > > > is sad..they made it conform by making it stupid.  Typical.
> > >
> > > xz is just a plain implementation of the LZMA algorithm. It's not
> > > meant to be a swiss army knife of packing utilities :)
> > ---
> >
> >         I think you're right, Joerg was confused...xz was a replacement
> > for lzma to add a file-type header to the front, since lzma didn't do that
> > and if you don't have a file suffix on it, it just looks like a binary blob...
>
> Well, you are confused. 7z is not a replacement for tar as you seem to believe
> and usually programs that try to do too many jobs don't do them all right.
>
> Jörg

Remember the saying:

"Jack of all trades, Master of *none*."

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Ken Schneider
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