Re: [Bug-tar] --auto-compress command line option

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> >3) i suggest that the location of the compress/gzip/bzip2/lzma programs
> >be settable at configure time, and that the tar executable uses the PATH
> >only when not set at configure time or not found in the indicated place.
[..]
> Please, don't do this, as it would bar users from using a version of the
> compress programs of their own, should they need to.

I agree with Helmut, this would be a desastrous change.

Regards,
Sergey