Re: Removing shar(1)
Jan Bramkamp <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.architechture |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 18.12.24 03:27, Kyle Evans wrote: > Hi, > > I was reminded the other day that shar(1) exists, though it's use is > no longer recommended in ports. The same functionality can be found > in tar(1) instead, so I think we should deorbit /usr/bin/shar and stop > promoting it entirely. sh(1) archives are really problematic from a > user standpoint for at least one reason best explained by the manpage: Let's remove it yesterday and add replace it with a stub telling users the port origin and package name if they want it for the 15.x release cycle.