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What were the magic letters you need to add again, to just fucking unpack something? (feddit.org)
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[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Then it would've been time to deprecate it for this purpose, and use something sensible instead, say about 13 years ago.
All the old stuff can then keep using tar, but the nicer option can become the standard for user-friendly file extraction.