Tared files are cancer and should never be used for any reason.
Wtf are you on… It’s literally just a way to turn a bunch of files into one. You can feed it into a makefile and make a single file installer like nothing. Apps are based on the concept. It’s a key technology for all sorts of applications
It’s so simple it works for anything, anywhere… It’s like saying virtualization is cancer. It’s often annoying when you have to interact with it directly, but everything we love is built on it
Tared compressed files are bad archives. You can’t retrieve a single file without unpacking everything. You can’t add new files or replace contents of existing files without unpacking and repacking everything. They are just very outdated and have poor design. There are no reasons to use them.
They’re bad for storing files, but a great way to turn a folder into a file.
Installers don’t need to be modified or used in part
Why do you continue talking about installers? That’s not the reason people invented archives and compression.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Clearly you’ve never used Linux
pascal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Clearly you never needed that single file quickly from a 5gb and 12,000 files tgz archive.