[hamei]

I've never on a UNIX made within the last 25 years needed coreutils or GNU tar

For the tar, I've run into :

At some point (I guess long ago now, everything was "long ago") gnu tar changed default behavior. It totally flocked me up and pissed me off, I forget what it did but would butcher files you were untarring. It was junk.

But some of the halfwits doing open sores packaged their makefiles to depend on this non-standard absurd behavior.

Yes, you could have worked around that but it was easier just to build gtar and use that in those cases.

I probably have this all mixed up because it was a long time ago but yeah, I can see this sort of thing happening. Also, using gmake is a pretty standard requirement for gnu stuff, but he didn't list that.

v11 is more than good enough, why would anyone want a newer version of slow larry ? :-) Actually, 10 was better but there's a few really useful bits in 11, so I also reluctantly went there. Running on the microserver on a ten year old install, and swerving ancient files to the macbook lappy at this very moment :-)

btw, has anyone else noticed that almost no one anywhere mentions the effing operating system level one is required to have, for executables ? I am so sick of downloading program after program after program in a descending scale, just to get to one that actually works on this level of (shitty, substandard) OS X. It's enough to make you hate people. wtf is wrong with them ? Is that so hard to put in the release notes or on the download page ? "Requires 11.75 or higher", that's impossibly technical and difficult for these buffoons ? They don't consider that anyone could be running hardware more than a year old ?