bsd ferringb@gentoo.org The bsdtar program creates and manipulates streaming archive files. It has a number of advantages over previous tar implementations. Build bsdtar and bsdcpio as static archives, removing dependencies over the enabled compression libraries (lzma, lzmadec, libbz2, zlib). Allow accessing gzip-compressed archives through sys-libs/zlib. This only affects libarchive's native support: bsdtar will keep using gunzip as a filter if that's not built-in. It's also needed for supporting extraction of ZIP files. Allow accessing bzip2-compressed archives through libbz2 (which comes with app-arch/bzip2). This only affects libarchive's native support: bsdtar will keep using bunzip2 as a filter if that's not built-in.