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Bug#: 93816
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Reporter: Alexander Skwar <askwar@digitalprojects.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-05-24 09:19 0000 
On my system, I've got both star and tar (GNU tar) installed. When I type
"tar", /usr/bin/tar is executed, which is the tar from star:

[18:16:55 alexander@server:/etc] $ ls -la /usr/bin/tar
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4  7. Feb 18:15 /usr/bin/tar -> star

It would be nice, if there were an "easy" way to run GNU tar. What I'm thinking
of is to introduce a symlink /usr/bin/gtar > /bin/tar. 

On other real(tm) Unix systems like Solaris or with certain HP-UX packages, the
link gtar -> GNU tar is already introduced. Because of that, such a symlink
wouldn't be *THAT* far off :)

------- Comment #1 From Carsten Lohrke 2005-05-24 11:09:45 0000 ------- 
No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star
should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119)

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2005-05-24 11:36:22 0000 ------- 
bsd team: useful for you ?

we only install the 'g' symlink on GNU systems when it's common, so we have
'gawk' and 'gmake', but not 'gsed' or 'gm4'

------- Comment #3 From Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2005-05-24 11:42:33 0000 ------- 
I'm using bsd tar for portage without problems at the moment, it has more 
features than gnu tar anyway, but I think gtar can be helpful when it depends 
on some syntax strictly gnu...

------- Comment #4 From Alexander Skwar 2005-05-24 14:19:32 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #1)
> No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star
> should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119)

Hm? I don't really care that star installs as /usr/bin/tar. With this bug, I'd
like to see a symlink /usr/bin/gtar -> /bin/tar or maybe /bin/gtar -> /bin/tar
being introduced.

So, even if there were no /usr/bin/tar -> /usr/bin/star symlink, I'd like to see
a gtar symlink.

------- Comment #5 From SpanKY 2005-05-24 15:06:21 0000 ------- 
checked with fedora and they have gmake and gtar symlinks in their standard, so
dropping in a gtar symlink should be ok
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