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diff --git a/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR b/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR index bc1adb77c3a..1c133f22b74 100644 --- a/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR +++ b/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several -different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants -and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives and read -ISO9660 CDROM images. +The libarchive library contains routines for creating, reading from, and +writing to different streaming archive formats, e.g. most popular tar +and cpio formats. Additionally, libarchive supports writing to shar archives +and reading from ISO-9660 (CD-ROM) images. -bdtar is a almost fully GNU tar compatible frontend for libarchive. It -is one of the fastest tar implementations and supports many advances -features not found elsewhere. +This package contains bsdtar, a high-efficiency libarchive front-end which +is [almost] wholly compatible with the ubiquitous GNU tar. It supports +advanced features many other implementations do not. -The pkgsrc version is linked to not dpeend on other parts of pkgsrc. +For your convenience, the installed bsdtar binary will not be linked +to any pkgsrc-provided libraries. |