Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio

[Pavel Raiskup]

> But with the proposed approach, -I /usr/bin/gzip behaves differently
> from -I gzip.  Isn't that confusing?

It definitely is.

> > I'm partly against
> > this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write
> > very simple wrapper
>
> Good point.  So perhaps we shouldn't add that complexity.  Still,
> it'd be better if we didn't have the sort of confusion illustrated
> above, somehow.

So you think something like remove the leading path '/usr/bin/' before
comparison with 'GZIP_PROGRAM'?