• Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.

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      5 months ago

      Use an archiving format that does both at once then, preserving whatever tar use cases has and compressing. The two steps are stupid, no arguing against that.