[ale] star vs. gnutar

[James P. Kinney III]

A while back, the question was asked "why star for baking up selinux
instead of modifying gnutar to handle the selinux extensions in RedHat".

I think I figured out the answer.

GNUtar is not just a Linux tool. It runs on every *nix there is. Each
flag for it works the same (there may be an exception of two) on every
platform. Adding SELinux capability to this will break the cross
platform nature of GNUtar. 

Thus Star.
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